The Travels of Tel's Tin Tent. (1 Viewer)

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Another hot week here at the Tin Tent, so not moving about much, just organising, tidying and adding a couple of helpful items.
But, as promised, here's some pics of the TTTS, (Tin Tent Transit System), aka Hyundai Tuscon N-Line petrol-electric hybrid, nicknamed "Hal", due to all of its electronic/computer gizmos !

 
It's on the right side of the dashboard, which is the wrong side for USA/Europe etc, but the right side for the UK as it's on the right side !!!
Yep, it's very high tec, so much so that, by the time I figure out how everything works, it'll be time to change to a new car !!
 
I'm surprised that it doesn't have cameras instead for mirrors, something that seems popular on lorries these days and something that the drivers where I work absolutely hate!
Something breaks and you're humped!
Have you downloaded all the impo...all the pubs on your GPS?
 
Our haul trucks had them and all they're good for is, "This is what that pick-up looked like before you ran it over."
 
Crimea_River said:
I am so not looking forward to the day I need a new vehicle. I'll need 40 hours in a simulator before feeling comfortable with driving these 4-wheeled computers.
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I was just explaining this today to a younger person.
There are more operating "features" on a 2023 Chevy Colorado pickup than on a Cherokee Warrior - it's ridiculous.
 
Nice set of wheels Terry, me and the better half a very impressed. You might want to think what your planing in the next few days as I saw a heatwave warning for UK and Europe last night. There talking of 10 days of sweltering heat.
 
Yep, cars are getting too clever !
This is all so "new" to me, rather like a Spitfire pilot ready for a first solo in a F-35, that I have to do a pre-start check-list, and then gently touch the throttle peddle, to ensure it actually is in"Drive" !!

Vic, the "heatwave" started here in Norfolk earlier this week, and has been rising daily - around 27C+ today, and still 23C at 20.00 hrs, with higher temps ( into the 30) set for the next week or so.
But I'm heading home on Sunday, so I guess that at least the rain in Macclesfield will be warm - a sure sign of summer !!
 
It's D minus 1 !!

Just finished packing for our trip to Normandy, and about to get my head down for a few hours.
I'll be setting off at around mid day tomorrow ( or later today, Friday !), with our friend Mick, heading for the Tin Tent in Norfolk.
Karl is due to arrive around 12.00 on Saturday, when he'll have a check-ride in "Hal", then a quick "first solo" around the campsite, so as to familarise himself with all the gizmos and the handling. Then it's pack the car with all our kit, and depart Norfolk around 15.30/16.00 hrs, heading for an overnight stop at an hotel within easy reach of the ferry port at Newhaven in Sussex.

Our ferry departs at 11.00 hrs on Sunday, 31st August, and arrives at Dieppe at 15.00hrs (16.00 hrs French time). Then it's a two hour drive to our hotel in Le Port, Benouville, just about 500 metres from Pegasus bridge, where we'll be based for the week (more on the hotel, and the village, when I do a full coverage on our return).
We'll be touring key D-Day (and battle of Normandy) locations, mainly British and Canadian, but if time allows, we hope to get to at least a couple of places/museums associated with American forces, along with other places of interest.

I won't be able to post any pics whilst in France (might be able to post a couple of narrative up-dates), but Karl will probably post a few "taster" pics.
However, once I get back home (return from France on 5th September, but not back home until 8th September), I'll be preparing and posting here a comprehensive coverage of our "adventures", with plenty of photos (hopefully with some "then and now" examples), along with brief explanations of the action that took place at the sites we visit.

Really looking forward to this trip, and we've already pre-booked sessions at the Alcohol Rehabilitation Clinic .................
 
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