I want to be a tourist

I have my home and my community, now I want to be a tourist in SL.

We need a tourist listing in search...great builds that must be seen. And some of the theme sims could have a tourist village so you can rent for a day or two and visit (a visitor from a foreign land sort of thing) but not sign your life over to RP.

We need a travel agent too I think...someone who packages tours and keeps up on the great builds (to prevent the dreaded link into oblivion due to someone packing it in).

I would also love a meditation retreat of some kind...a two or three day meditation intensive with yoga, etc...a guided experience.

And no, I don't want to do these things myself cause I am, like most, a consumer and use SL to relax, refresh and recover from my work in RL.

Problem is, it changes by the minute. That great build you saw yesterday might not even exist today. The best way to be an SL tourist is to randomly go from sim to sim, and explore on your own.

Search is your friend...type in a key word that interests you. I sometimes type in a Random city name..ie New Orleans and see what comees up.

first search for a prim camera, a hawaiin shirt, and suntan lotion for your nose.

Thanks. I realize that I have been expecting SL to eventually stabilize after digesting the new folk but now I see that this will never happen. I guess the old hands are really aware of this but it takes getting used to for us newer citizens...the constant change.

I think Ronan Dal made a 'cool places' set of screenshots at Snapzilla.com.

So you can kinda search on that and browse, and usually get a peek at what the place is like too before you tp.

Profile is your friend.

Whenever you meet someone new, or just see them standing around in a sim, right-click on their Profile and see if they have Picks. I've found some of the most interesting places that way.

Also, New World Notes blog has a "View From My Window" feature that will keep you exploring for days, if not weeks.

And practice saying: "What is that in REAL money?" : P

Also, don't forget that SL is very international. In your travels you are likely to come across many other avs for whom English is not their native language.

You may overcome this potential hurdle by simply TYPING LOUDER to them. This is a well known method which thousands of tourists have used for countless years.



-Atashi

Check out secondseeker.com for honest reviews of interesting places to go.

Best travel agency I have found is Secondseeker.com. Seeker Gray has compiled a number of great reviews on places to go and things to see in SL and organized them into catagories which makes it realy easy to find things you might be interested in.

Aislin

Try Second Life Tourist: http://secondtourist.blogspot.com/

And if your Avi is male..make sure you wear shorts with sandals...and socks.

he should also carry a camera around his neck as well and probably have a bottle of sunblock just in case..

Black socks

Carry an English to SLanguage Dictionary and constantly look throught it.

Then ignore anything you find and just REPEAT ALL QUESTIONS IN CAPS.

Try to patronize Brand Name establishments you can find in your home town avoiding local merchants

Lol...good advice all..I'm sure I will be very popular with the locals.

Thx.

Surprised nobody else has posted this link, http://www.gabrielguyer.com/slparksandrec/
I got another somewhere for a 'guide' to places.

you might try being a geocache hunter. see www.slgeocaching.com they are new but the idea is pretty cool

We will have you whiped into a tourist in no time

also dont forget the badly folded map that you have flapping around in the wind or spread out on the ground and screw up your face a lot while looking at it

What is it about? What do they mean by caching? (I assume it hasn't anything to do with a computer cache, or has it?)

Hungarian: I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
Clerk: Sorry?
Hungarian I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
Clerk: Uh, no, no, no. This is a tobacconist's.
Hungarian: Ah! I will not buy this tobacconist's, it is
scratched.
Clerk: No, no, no, no. Tobacco... um...cigarettes.
Hungarian: Ja! See-gar-ets! Ja! Uh... My hovercraft is
full of eels.



P2

So is mine; makes is very hard to fly.

http://www.geocaching.com/

'Geocaching' has become a popular Real Life 'treasure hunt' game. Or, perhaps a scavenger hunt.
In general, a 'box' of stuff is hidden, and you're given clues to find it. When you find it, you take one thing from the box and substitute something else.