Google Earth

[Marissa]

Google earth always opens on Africa. is there a way to make it open on north America?

[The Map Commissioner]

Hi Marissa,

I'm not a Google Earth expert, but did a bit of research and found the following suggestion:

Setting Your Starting Location
You can set the starting (default) location that appears each time you launch Google Earth. To do this, navigate to the appropriate location and perspective and click View > Make this my start location

I found it at:
http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/