RE: After mastering a "second plane", what next?
If you really want to challenge yourself now that you know how to fly, get a thermal glider, and then go fishing for thermals. It doesn't have the adrenaline rush of the low altitude 3D and aerobatics, but you have to develop a very close sense of your plane, and when you hook that thermal that specks you out, you'll find out what I mean.
Brad