Open an atlas or pick up a globe and run your finger along zero degrees longitude.
These factors combined mean that when I feel the impulse to go, I pick a weekend, spin my globe, and book.
But the end goal for Triposo is really to hone its all-in-one world travel guides, so that users can pick a destination anywhere across the globe and easily find the best cities and destinations to visit.
There's a moment midway through the season when Alex picks up a globe and spins it absently in one hand, like a basketball.
I know what they mean, and yet, in the floating shots of Macau and the glow of Shanghai, photographed by Roger Deakins, I sensed a restoration of the old globe-girdling dream: pick a passport, pack a weapon, meet a girl.
But that's not the full story – pick a slice of the sector from across the globe and you will see women carving a space for themselves.
We pick a place, like "Coming to America," where we spin the globe and put our finger down.
Picking a cuisine is like spinning a globe and prodding a finger at it.
I looked at what other teachers around the globe had asked for and picked a few of theirs.
The children crowded around a globe, picking out the continents.
