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(Because I still have several trips that I haven’t updated yet, so the story timeline is still before, not yet now)
Today’s lesson: Be careful when handing JT to a friend who is not skilled in driving, and check whether you have brought tools before going out...
Today we planned to go to the top of the mountain to take some photos. It started raining heavily when we set off. When we arrived at the top of the mountain, the weather was not bad. Then I suddenly realized that I didn't bring a torx wrench...
In fact, I didn't bring any tools, so stupid...
On the way down the mountain, I let my friend drive the JT. He was a novice who had not driven much since he passed the driver's license test. It was difficult for him to grasp the distance between the truck and the guardrail...
Do you still remember when you first started driving? When you can’t grasp the distance between the passenger side and the guardrail, you will subconsciously stay away from it. This will make you feel safe, but in fact it is quite dangerous to do so on the mountain road.
Because this will make the vehicle to be too close to the opposite lane, or even cross the center line. If a high-speed car comes from the opposite direction when turning, an accident may occur...
I reminded him several times to get closer to the guardrail, but I felt like he still didn't dare to do it. At this time, I didn't realize what a stupid thing we were doing...
When we arrived at the foot of the mountain, we searched all the tool stores around us and couldn't buy a torx wrench. We only bought three slotted screwdrivers and a set of Allen wrenches. None of them could unscrew the T50 screws on the JT door...
Okay, let's have lunch first...
After lunch we planned to go to the beach to play for a while. I sat on the passenger side and watched the video captured by the action camera in the morning. He was reversing the car.
When I heard the rapid warning sound of the reversing radar, it seemed that everything was too late...
At first I thought the collision shouldn't be serious, because all I heard was a slight muffled sound, and it felt like we hit something.
Even until I got out of the car to check, I thought we just knocked off a little paint on the car behind.
Maybe we only need to pay a few dozen dollars in compensation. When I got closer to check, I found that the problem was more serious than I thought. We dented the fenders of the car and the plastic bumper also popped out.
Even a corner of the headlight was damaged...
This was my first time experiencing an accident, and I didn’t know how to deal with it. The owner of the car just parked on the side of the road to buy some medicine. As soon as he came back, he saw that we had hit his car...
We each called an experienced friend to ask what to do, and finally compensated him $400... This is equivalent to two weeks' salary for many people... Well, at least this is not a Porsche or a Bentley.
And no one was injured in this accident, we are lucky...
Our JT's reversing image looks farther away than it actually is. I don't know if all JTs are like this. In the reversing image, it looks far away from the obstacle, but it looks very close when viewed from the rearview mirror.
As for our JT? It was safe and sound, just a slight paint loss on the rear bumper. I just discovered that our rear bumper is made of steel. I always thought it was plastic.
Anyway, things have happened and we still don’t want to ruin the mood. It’s foggy on the beach today.
I like this feeling. The waves are lapping slowly on the beach, and the roar of ships can be heard from time to time. I am walking on the rocks on the river embankment. I need to always pay attention to the rocks under my feet, but I feel very peaceful in my heart...
I imagined myself being Bear Grylls, or Danny Macaskill from 'The Ridge'...
Well, a crazy day...
Today’s lesson: Be careful when handing JT to a friend who is not skilled in driving, and check whether you have brought tools before going out...
Today we planned to go to the top of the mountain to take some photos. It started raining heavily when we set off. When we arrived at the top of the mountain, the weather was not bad. Then I suddenly realized that I didn't bring a torx wrench...
In fact, I didn't bring any tools, so stupid...
On the way down the mountain, I let my friend drive the JT. He was a novice who had not driven much since he passed the driver's license test. It was difficult for him to grasp the distance between the truck and the guardrail...
Do you still remember when you first started driving? When you can’t grasp the distance between the passenger side and the guardrail, you will subconsciously stay away from it. This will make you feel safe, but in fact it is quite dangerous to do so on the mountain road.
Because this will make the vehicle to be too close to the opposite lane, or even cross the center line. If a high-speed car comes from the opposite direction when turning, an accident may occur...
I reminded him several times to get closer to the guardrail, but I felt like he still didn't dare to do it. At this time, I didn't realize what a stupid thing we were doing...
When we arrived at the foot of the mountain, we searched all the tool stores around us and couldn't buy a torx wrench. We only bought three slotted screwdrivers and a set of Allen wrenches. None of them could unscrew the T50 screws on the JT door...
Okay, let's have lunch first...
After lunch we planned to go to the beach to play for a while. I sat on the passenger side and watched the video captured by the action camera in the morning. He was reversing the car.
When I heard the rapid warning sound of the reversing radar, it seemed that everything was too late...
At first I thought the collision shouldn't be serious, because all I heard was a slight muffled sound, and it felt like we hit something.
Even until I got out of the car to check, I thought we just knocked off a little paint on the car behind.
Maybe we only need to pay a few dozen dollars in compensation. When I got closer to check, I found that the problem was more serious than I thought. We dented the fenders of the car and the plastic bumper also popped out.
Even a corner of the headlight was damaged...
This was my first time experiencing an accident, and I didn’t know how to deal with it. The owner of the car just parked on the side of the road to buy some medicine. As soon as he came back, he saw that we had hit his car...
We each called an experienced friend to ask what to do, and finally compensated him $400... This is equivalent to two weeks' salary for many people... Well, at least this is not a Porsche or a Bentley.
And no one was injured in this accident, we are lucky...
Our JT's reversing image looks farther away than it actually is. I don't know if all JTs are like this. In the reversing image, it looks far away from the obstacle, but it looks very close when viewed from the rearview mirror.
As for our JT? It was safe and sound, just a slight paint loss on the rear bumper. I just discovered that our rear bumper is made of steel. I always thought it was plastic.
Anyway, things have happened and we still don’t want to ruin the mood. It’s foggy on the beach today.
I like this feeling. The waves are lapping slowly on the beach, and the roar of ships can be heard from time to time. I am walking on the rocks on the river embankment. I need to always pay attention to the rocks under my feet, but I feel very peaceful in my heart...
I imagined myself being Bear Grylls, or Danny Macaskill from 'The Ridge'...
Well, a crazy day...
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Why do we always forget to bring things?
This time I brought the A73 and planned to try to take some starry sky photos.
At night, after we set up the tent, I realized that we didn't bring an SD card... I tried to use my mobile phone to record the stars in the sky, but unfortunately the effect was not good.
We brought a folding bed, I think this time it should be at least better than the last time
I plan to sleep in the pyramid tent and Jamin in the dome tent
But even though we had brought it out three times, we had not yet realized that the wind ropes should be tightened when setting up the pyramid tent... (I didn't realize this until the fourth time we set it up)
In theory, a tent with a pyramid structure should have excellent wind resistance, but my tent just kept swaying in the wind. We ate and chatted as usual, and then returned to the tent to rest.
The wind wasn't very strong at first, and I thought I would be able to sleep peacefully tonight. But after about half an hour, I felt like the tent was constantly beating on my head...
Even though we pitched our tent as close as possible to JT, the strong wind kept harassing us
I tried to ignore the flapping tent, trying to force myself to sleep, and after another half hour, I found that I couldn't...
The situation at Jamin's side doesn't seem promising either. His tent is also twitching in the wind.
But the dome structure of his tent maintains stability, so the situation is better than mine.
Well, I don’t want to disturb him. I can only spend the night in the car tonight. At least in such a strong wind, I don’t have to worry about mosquitoes...
The temperature gradually dropped at night, and I didn't want to open the pyramid tent to get the quilt, because it would be troublesome and might collapse the tent, so I slept with the extra tent covered all night...
Fortunately, the weather was not bad the next day. After we got up, we lit a fire and quickly warmed up.
Jamin said that he felt like an animal like a cat or dog sniffing his tent at night. After hearing what he said, I felt as if I had encountered it too...
There is a big temperature difference between day and night during this period, and it’s so hot during the day that you can wear short sleeves.
I don't know if you have heard of the 'Tank 300'. This off-road vehicle produced by Great Wall has been very popular in China in recent years. As of this year, it should have about 280,000 sales. It has also caused a lot of controversy because the front is too similar to the Bronco.
I'm guessing there aren't many of this car in the US and there's no reason for people to ditch the Bronco and go for it, but I've seen some Australian videos of people driving this car.
This time we met them gathering here. More than fifty tanks came. What’s interesting is that they were all yellow.
I wonder where they got all these yellow cars from ?
But no matter what, it must be spectacular to have so many yellow Tank 300 driving on the road...
This time I brought the A73 and planned to try to take some starry sky photos.
At night, after we set up the tent, I realized that we didn't bring an SD card... I tried to use my mobile phone to record the stars in the sky, but unfortunately the effect was not good.
We brought a folding bed, I think this time it should be at least better than the last time
I plan to sleep in the pyramid tent and Jamin in the dome tent
But even though we had brought it out three times, we had not yet realized that the wind ropes should be tightened when setting up the pyramid tent... (I didn't realize this until the fourth time we set it up)
In theory, a tent with a pyramid structure should have excellent wind resistance, but my tent just kept swaying in the wind. We ate and chatted as usual, and then returned to the tent to rest.
The wind wasn't very strong at first, and I thought I would be able to sleep peacefully tonight. But after about half an hour, I felt like the tent was constantly beating on my head...
Even though we pitched our tent as close as possible to JT, the strong wind kept harassing us
I tried to ignore the flapping tent, trying to force myself to sleep, and after another half hour, I found that I couldn't...
The situation at Jamin's side doesn't seem promising either. His tent is also twitching in the wind.
But the dome structure of his tent maintains stability, so the situation is better than mine.
Well, I don’t want to disturb him. I can only spend the night in the car tonight. At least in such a strong wind, I don’t have to worry about mosquitoes...
The temperature gradually dropped at night, and I didn't want to open the pyramid tent to get the quilt, because it would be troublesome and might collapse the tent, so I slept with the extra tent covered all night...
Fortunately, the weather was not bad the next day. After we got up, we lit a fire and quickly warmed up.
Jamin said that he felt like an animal like a cat or dog sniffing his tent at night. After hearing what he said, I felt as if I had encountered it too...
There is a big temperature difference between day and night during this period, and it’s so hot during the day that you can wear short sleeves.
I don't know if you have heard of the 'Tank 300'. This off-road vehicle produced by Great Wall has been very popular in China in recent years. As of this year, it should have about 280,000 sales. It has also caused a lot of controversy because the front is too similar to the Bronco.
I'm guessing there aren't many of this car in the US and there's no reason for people to ditch the Bronco and go for it, but I've seen some Australian videos of people driving this car.
This time we met them gathering here. More than fifty tanks came. What’s interesting is that they were all yellow.
I wonder where they got all these yellow cars from ?
But no matter what, it must be spectacular to have so many yellow Tank 300 driving on the road...
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