User blog comment:Multimate pnd/Why does everyone take the long way?/@comment-4830337-20120229212339

I thinks the main reason is because there are no canal on the Reverse Mountain to the New World, which makes it really hard, if not impossible to get to the New World by Reverse Mountain. And even if they do, then there would be no point taking the long way. Plus, it's boring xD But I hope Oda will come up with an explanation for that, as I wondered that too before.