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They should rename "Google Maps" "Google Adventures". Today I used Maps to navigate us to a nearby town and it send us through the forest. Not just a road through the forest, but sandy paths that are hardly used and impossible to cycle. On the way back we managed to avoid the worst of it, but the route was still interesting.
I think those paths must be marked as mountain bike paths on Maps, but some were marked as walking paths only. It also wanted to send us on paths that were clearly once paths but weren't used as such for years and were completely overgrown.
Google optimistically estimated a travel time of about half an hour. Both times it took us over an hour. The first time because we were off in the wilds and on the way back because it send us up a looooooong hill and we had to get off our bikes and walk.
On the upside: I will sleep well tonight and I won't feel guilty if I take it easy the rest of the week. We changed plans for tomorrow. We wanted to walk or cycle to the restaurant our grandparents took us after a walk in forest. But we'll now take a walk to the restaurant on the vacation park and take the scenic route.
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