Clearly, I’m no Johnny Cash. In fact, I’ve never traveled west of Wichita or Oklahoma City. But when Google announced that it was shutting down the web version of Google Location, I figured I should save some screenshots. I’ve used an Android Phone since 2011 and Google has been tracking my location since then. Here’s what the all-time map looks like, with vacations / long trips annotated.

While the average year is spent mostly here at home in the State College, Pennsylvania area, and York, Pennsylvania, where Kristi’s parents are, I do go down to North Carolina with some frequency, to my Mom’s house in western North Carolina and Oak Island (at the beach).

During this time period, I also visited Washington D.C., Annapolis, Rehoboth Beach, New Brunswick, New Jersey, the Outer Banks, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Greenville, South Carolina (for the 2017 solar eclipse). Most other dots are during travel to one of those places.

I guess you can add the above map to this map I made in 2013 of my travels from 1974 to 2011. As you can see, I used to travel out of the mid-Atlantic, but I haven’t been on a plane since 2007. It doesn’t seem like 17 years ago, but here we are.

We’ll miss Google Location. While Kristi and I were dating in 2011, we used Google Location to track each other’s trips and see how close we were to arriving at each other’s houses in real time. Privacy concerns caused Google to disable that feature a year or two later, and now, with more privacy concerns, we see them shutting down the web version.

R.I.P. Google Location!