Door to America: September 2022

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Second Life Wiki User Manual

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There are many ways to learn how to operate in Second Life. For gamers it's easy because often they already understand the controls (mostly) and know what to expect. However, if you are a first-time user entering a virtual world it can seem very daunting.

If you would like to connect with people around the world, create networks of close friends, or just want to hang-out at clubs playing your favorite genre of music but don't have a clue how to start you can:

Go to youtube.com and search "how to" in Second Life. There are many videos related to learning how to join and how to operate your avatar in SL (Second Life). See Strawberry Singh: (1) Intro to Second Life Part 1 – Creating an Account & Moving Around - YouTube
Google search "Second life."
Click on the above picture for the SL User Manual.
Join from the Second Life main website by clicking "join" on the top menu bar here on DtA's website.
When you login for the first-time type in "Door to America" in the location field on the right side.

We look forward to meeting you! Enjoy!

Sunday, September 25, 2022

Queen Elizabeth's Famous Pancake Recipe Is Going Viral - Kara Zauberman

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"The recipe was first shared by Queen Elizabeth in a letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower back in 1960. The original letter and recipe, which is available in the National Archives, reveals that the Queen served the pancakes (which are actually called "drop scones") to Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie, when they visited the queen at her castle in Balmoral."

Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Pancake Recipe

Ingredients

4 teacups flour

4 tablespoons caster sugar (or granulated sugar)

2 teacups milk

2 whole eggs

2 teaspoons bicarbonate soda (or baking soda)

3 teaspoons cream of tartar

2 tablespoons melted butter

Directions

"Beat eggs, sugar, and about half the milk together, add flour, and mix well together, adding remainder of milk as required, also bicarbonate and cream of tartar, fold in the melted butter."

The Queen's recipe ends there so in true royal fashion, there's a bit of secrecy when it comes to how long to cook them and what exactly is a teacup, anyway?

Here's what we suggest: 1 teacup = approximately 3/4 cup so you'll need 3 cups flour and 1 1/2 cups milk. Heat a griddle with some melted butter and drop the batter by the spoonful onto the griddle. Then, as is the case with pancakes, when bubbles start to form, flip to the other side and continue to cook until golden. The finished result will be pancakes fit for a queen! 👑

Friday, September 23, 2022

Welcome to Second Life

Picture Compliments of Disi Siamendes

Why join Second Life? Because there is no reason to be alone when you don't want to be!

Are you missing something or someone?

Second Life (SL) is a virtual world for human connection! Most of us can't just pick up our phone and call a stranger in Italy, Greece, France, UK, Japan, Australia (pick your favorite country), develop a relationship, become best friends, or fall in love. We can't just "jet" overseas for a weekend fling of partying with new friends (much less live with the person or people we love). We can't take off work for a month to visit a possible new friend or lover we want to spend time with, nor can we bring them home for an hour to spend time dancing, telling stories, romancing, or just having fun.

You can do all of this in Second Life and so much more!

If you want human connection this is the place to do it. The personal connections you can make will feel just as deep, profound, and as abiding as in real life, sometimes even deeper. Many feel safer meeting new people in Second Life because they don't have to meet face to face in real life. Whether or not you work too much, you're on a furlough from work, in-between jobs, or maybe Covid & variants are keeping you home away from connecting to family, friends, and loved ones - good news, you can do it all here in Second Life!

If you want to go solo and experience SL alone, you can certainly do that, too. Go on adventures, get creature - animal - fantasy type avatar skins and clothing. You can rent/buy an exclusive island, spend time on your hobby like photography, building, or you can "just be" almost any way you like. In fact, many use SL for real life family members and friends much like chat rooms, IM's, calls, Zoom, Facetime, and more. You can pick a spot everyone loves and just hang out together. Even co-workers, clubs, church members, sororities, fraternities, veterans, and every day real companies have a presence in Second Life.

To sum it up, SL is what you make it, and you can go as deep and involved or as light and silly as you want to make it. If you're stuck at home or living with a disability, SL gets you "up and out" of your home and connects you with a wide variety of people, places and things you will enjoy!

Second Life is the place for human connection no matter what your particular interests, hobbies, disciplines, or life choices may be! Oh, and you can fly!

Join us in Second Life today!

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Door to America Arises: DtA re-opens under new management!

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Door to America

Door to America quickly became a fan favorite welcoming 4 to 20 new people every day before it was forced to close. Today DtA re-opens under new management! All your favorites are back including NYC Central Park as the welcoming area extending up to 4,000 meters to Stargate Atlantis Space City. Join us and experience one of the most unique and stylish newcomer friendly sims in Second Life!

Welcoming New Users area - ground level
1st Track Level - Niagara Falls, NY, track
2nd Track Level - Florida colage of the state
2.5 Track Level - Louisiana Bayou
3rd Track Level - Texas, bluebells, cowboy(s), and more
4th Track Level - California, Hollywood, Beverly Hills
4.5 Track Level - Yosemite
5th Track Level - Hawaii - be careful! Don't fall into the volcano
6th Track Level - Another Galaxy and Stargate Atlantis
7th Level - Z Wack Zombie Apocalypse, full sim combat

Not only is DtA re-opened, but it's also one of three track stacks (levels of vehicle and animal riding environments). We are proudly presenting to you the following:

Cannery Cove sim, unique and fun, live events, tracks and more
Door to America, newcomer friendly soon to be an SL Gateway
Mavericks MC, hybrid, upscale MC with almost 100 members

Now all visitors can drive, walk or ride from one sim to the next, all three, to enjoy 3 different flavors of experiences, sights, sounds, and opportunities to meet new people. Don't have a motorcycle or horse? No problem, we provide demos for you to use (and don't have to pay to use).

The new owner of Door to America is now a partnership: Tank, Cherry, Terek and AG want to maintain DtA's primary purpose: help new people join SL and connect with a vast population of other people. True connection happens when people "choose" to be together, not just that you're in proximity to one another. This is the brilliant aspect of Second Life that is not often highlighted: yes, you can feel connected to people in SL as much as you can in real life!

This article may not be perfect in the sense that it's grammatically correct, but what is perfect are the three regions available to all SL citizens to visit, ride, and enjoy! We are beyond excited and floating above over-joyed to offer these regions to all visitors.

Join, come, stay, have fun