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“I’ve decided to start doing more tours of large areas of the grid, and filing multimedia reports about what I found. … For today’s trip, then, I decided to make a boat ride down the entire length of the main “winter river” in SL; that is, the river that runs through the section of the grid that’s perpetually covered in snow and ice…. I’ve noticed a strange kind of unified quiet in the winter section of the grid as well, that you don’t normally see from other sections of the mainland; whether on purpose or on accident, the area just seems to have a lot more tasteful residences and a lot less glaring big-box stores than one randomly finds elsewhere. And of course I just find the winter section of SL to be aesthetically pleasing to begin with; and how can you turn down the prospect of full-speed boating in winter without ever getting chilly or catching cold?”
Or you can tag along with the rather more critical Valleywag (hat tip to Project Sanguine), who couldn’t find much of anyone to interact with and didn’t handle it so well when s/he did:
