Touring Hawaii without Leaving Home

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I recently discovered a neat software program that allows you to tour a location without going anywhere. It's called Google Earth and can be downloaded free from http://earth.google.com/. You can fly to a certain location such as Maui and then visit various points of interest by clicking on a small blue square. Then, a picture of the location pops up. You can also get a good idea about the highways and geography of the location which can be especially useful in planning a vacation to a mountainous location such as Hawaii.