It was the year when we had a huge party to wish Bon Voyage to Justin when he left to go back to RL, Total Sorbet's Outbreak was the breakout pastime of OSGrid, and Opensimworld was in its infancy - before the highs and lows of Traffic Classification, and the Box with its merry band of prolix commentators.
There was AvatarFest, and the gloriously Cherrified Fest'Avi. Inworldz and Twinity were still places you could go (hard to believe that Twinity didn't shut down until 2021), Blue Mars and Cloudparty were already gone.
The idea that these were real options for the grid-trotter seems a little crazy nowadays, when hypergridding is so easy and facilitated with all kinds of directories and events calendars but back then, they were serious options. OSCC unveiled its treasure hunt, a super way to motivate people to visit all the expo sims, and there was much dancing during the event....
The year - in case you didn't remember it, was 2015. We were all so young and energetic! HG Safari trips had become a common event, and somehow, not sure why, for about two months this blog went silent.
I must have known I'd stopped blogging, and probably thought of catching up the posts eventually, but honestly, it's a blank. Evidently other considerations took precedence. So this year, having a few days to set things straight, I've recreated as best as possible those lost weeks, August and a bit of September and July, as well as re-uploading all kinds of random photos from posts that Blogger decided it could no longer remember. It's a long job, because there are about 600 articles in this blog, but hopefully before the new season begins in September, there will be no more ugly gaps in this story of safarying. (can't guarantee no more ugly photos, obviously). I really hope you find yourself in many of the pictures, or recognise places you knew, and old friends, and that it stirs good memories. |
| Why did I build a pinball machine to store the archive? No. Freaking. Idea. |
See, it's not just opensim that is buggy and unreliable at times. Now, if you want to you can go back and get a blast from the past. For example....There was the time we went to visit Path in his home grid,
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| Path and Mal |
... and then also sampled the series of stories on Nara's Nook (oh so digital!)
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| Magic number build on Nara's Nook |
Do you remember, were you there when we went to Atek Grid to experience Truelie's Tuff Ditties?
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| Telling Tales |
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| Graham Mills |
...and what about when we all went to learn about TB in the most entertaining way, over on Kitely, with Graham Mills?
Most scandalous of all, this blog was missing all the photos from our visit to OSGrid's Feriae Quinquennial by that most talented and dear friend of the Safari Dorothea Lundquist. Twinned with the 1001 nights build, these are two of the most lovely sims we've ever visited in all our 250+ safari excursions..png)
Reaching back through the archive of gifs and photos, it feels like the 9 years since we took these trips just fade away, because of the memorable hilarious and touching content we got to see, it feels like yesterday.
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Much of this content, and indeed these grids, are no longer available, sad to say. A touch of sadness as well, for sure, as you read the names of friends who, for one reason or another, have moved on from opensim. But while we remember them, they're not entirely gone. Any of them.
HG Address of the Safari Archive (still a work in progress)
hop://grid.hgsafari.org:58002/HG%20Safari/85/186/36
I saw the beginnings of the archive a couple weeks back. Wow Thirza, this is just amazing. I even remember something of 2015 too. This is really awesome and we thank you!
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