This relates a little to trying to ID while watching TV. I’m a pro cycling fan and there are races where the athletes travel long distances across all kinds of terrain each day. So you can see a lot of the same plants, but not quite that close up. Currently the Giro D’Italia is crossing through some pretty wild areas in the middle of the country. So while watching the race I also login to iNaturalist to try to see if I can find any an observations from the area they are traversing. Sadly (for me) the documenters are fairly sparse and seem to be more bug people that plant people.
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Roadtrip time. :) Sounds like the area needs some observers. And extra bonus, you get to watch the race in person. Probably not possible, but reminds me of some of my “spur of the moment” birding adventures to see rare birds.
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When I showed my partner this thread, he said, “Are you rooting for Roglic to get one more? Ayuso to rise? Bernal to return to form?”
And I said, “…Haha I like plants.”
I always end up identifying filming locations of TV shows by what flora can be seen in the background, and I have had to figure out locations I’ve seen with flora I didn’t recognize, thus falling down the rabbit hole of flora in a new region. When my partner has cycling on the TV I’m always like, “That makes me want to go camping,” when they go through the gorgeous wild areas.
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Haha! It is possible to like both plants and be a cycling fan. Or at least there is one of us. (I’m a Pogačar fan, but he’s not riding the Giro this year.) The good thing about watching cycling compared to TV shows is they constantly update you on the location. It’s a little complicated but what I do is enter the location name into the map app on my phone so I know the vicinity, and then jump to iNaturalist to explore the area. I haven’t quite gotten serious enough to bring my laptop over so I can use the web version.