Hike on Google Earth: KMZ file
My Google Earth project is a document of my hiking experience. It starts out with places where I have gone hiking in Japan when I was little and moves on to hiking trails I recently have gone since I came to the States. It goes back to Japan to show where I'd like to hike in the near future.
The main idea of my project was to show that I like to go hiking. As a child, I was actually not that interested in hiking and I don't remember much about what I did while hiking. But, since I came to the States and went hiking with my friends often, I came to appreciate nature. Then, I realized that Japan had many beautiful places - Yakushima, Mt. Fuji, etc. - and I felt I missed out on exploring and knowing my home country. That is why I'd like to go back to Japan to hike those places.
I divided six places into three parts - past, present, and future - and attempted to show that I went hiking, go hiking, and will go hiking. Using Google Earth was, to me, a funny experience because, for example, Mt. Kabuto Park looked a huge park to me as a child, but on Google Earth and comparing other places like Morgan Territory, the park looked very small. And, El Scorpion Park and Morgan Territory seemed to be vast fields when I hiked, but they appeared small on Google Earth. From this experience, I got a sense of how small I was on earth; how gigantic the earth was.
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