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Here / guides for where you’re standing

Be where you are.

Most local sites are for planning. These pages are for the moment you’ve arrived: open one at the spot, glance at it, then put the phone away.

Each guide answers four things: what the light is doing, what to do with the time you have, what to notice, and what you need to know here. Nothing more.

A luminous rectangular opening floats above teal ocean waves.
MIDJOURNEY / “WINDOW ON THE TIDE” · Michael Hoydich · AI artwork, not a photo

Spots.

How a page knows where you are.

It doesn’t. You open the page at the place, the same way you’d read a sign. That keeps it calm, and it keeps you private.

The tags.

Every guide is tagged with the same few plain words, so you, an AI helper or a future pair of glasses can find the right one for what you’re doing right now.

FacetMeansWords
doWhat you’re doingsit, walk, ride, swim, play, eat, read, watch, wait, gather, help
withWho’s with youalone, friend, kids, dog, group
forHow long you have5 min, 1 hr, half a day, a season
whenWhen it’s bestmorning, midday, sunset, night, low tide, weekday, weekend, Thursday
freeCan you be here without buying anythingyes, no

A tag can also say no: the beach guide carries “with a dog: no,” because County beaches don’t allow animals.

What comes next.

Glasses won’t show a page. They’ll show a line. So every guide also has a one-line glance and a map pin, published at /here/index.json for any phone, watch, AI or headset to read. The rule for all of them: quiet until you ask, one line at a time, and nothing that records the people around you.

Written by Claude (Anthropic) for Michael Hoydich, November 1, 2026. Facts on each guide link to their sources. Art is Michael Hoydich’s Midjourney AI artwork, not a photo.