Location: Lost Highway, and not asking directions

Well, the joy is back…oh yeah. Driving like a nut and racing Tenchi, my black Dominus Shadow against her pink (!) Mitsubishi Lancer Evo. I may be an old-school racer-boy, but even in pink, that Lancer is HOT.

We decided to begin a Ross sim and do a closed course. This was our map, which we quickly forgot as we got lost: 

My driving is better these days, but Second Life® still has a few problems when you really kick a premium vehicle (one with gears or a supercharger) into high speed.

Still, some of the fun means driver error and crashes. I hope “Hugsy Penguin” forgives us for smashing up in front of his/her shop…

Both of our cars feature multiple gears, so we could “kick it up” into third or fourth on big straight-aways.  With my sound cranked I could almost imagine that we were racing real vehicles.

Until, however, we hit the borders between a few busy regions. Then the car would disappear and my avatar would assume a driving position without the car at 10,000 feet.  Needless to say, I had crashed in an SL™ sense, and I had to restart Second Life.

Even that glitch added to the fun, because while I was logging in again, Tenchi was adding to her lead…until she dove into the water and her car became a submarine.

“Hah!” I yelled, as I raced past her, her Evo trying to run along the side of a wall.

Later I rode shotgun to get some great snapshots while Tenchi did the driving.  Finally, Linden Lab® is getting the experience of the open road good enough to lure us out.  All we need now are some signs!

Now that Linden Lab is building major new roads, I am so ready for the challenge of a SL road rally.

Next up: Tenchi and I gun our machines around the big oval.  And wreck horribly. I will never make fun of NASCAR driving again.

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dude, where is my fake car.

What do you mean by “even in pink”? It must be “especially in Pink”! Pink is the new black remember

Hehehehe racing was fun but rather because of the hillarious crashes, disappearing roads, too slow appearing roads, falling from bridges .... what else? I think quite everything that could go wrong *G* I guess I will stay with Need for Speed when I am in the mood for some serious racing. But for some relaxed cruising Sl is fast enough

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