What have you done to your 1st gen Tundra today?

Just got back from our yearly lake trip, it was a blast! Lots of wildlife and lots of fun! Coming back to 100+ degree weather from mid 70s sucked!
The road less traveled…… taking in the awesome views! We are pretty sure this is the same frog we caught in camp the night before, and then found him again at the lake in the morning caught this one with his bear hands! Wild man catching anything that moves
The lake was super low so lots of mud, my son lost his flip flop in knee deep mud and so did I trying to get his out. Both dogs smell like bong water now….defying gravity chasing a squirrel we saw bear every day while we were there Lots of smoke in the air from near by fires chimney sweep pic, both boys were disgusting getting showered at home lastly, what’s camping in AZ if you don’t bring your pet tortoise?!

 

Did the dogs go crazy when y'all saw the bear?

 

Django has decent recall but he was definitely interested!

 

....I guess we'll give welding a shot tomorrow...

 

Man, I totally forgot about the TG&Y chain. Blast from the past right there.

 

Similar here but totally different critter types, and much to my disappointment, no fishing for me. And sadly no Tundra.

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Damn, almost forgot these fun little guys who we humans owe a fucking hell of a lot to!

https://imgur.com/a/5TQnnDX​

 

What’s the skelly of?
Out next trip is to the beach, but in the 4runner

 

Appears to be a duck saddle (pelvis) to me, but I'm not 100% sure.

We also found half a deer carcass, fully intact with all tissues, but it'd only been in the water for maybe a couple weeks, the sun hadn't quite bleached it out, and critters hadn't picked it clean. Only got one vertebra.

And as for my last post's video, we actually didn't see a single horseshoe crab carcass the whole time. Super weird, down in FL you find the shells everywhere.

 

How hot is it up there?

 

I need to go to the beach one of these days. Used to go all the time in high school. It's only about 45 mins away from the house and yet I haven't been in over a decade. Used to take my 2wd pickups and drive on the beach. Never even taken my 4wd.

 

When we left earlier it was 72°.
Step out of the plane in ATL and I think it was 92°.

Loved the weather up there. Loved the vibe. I've been to Maine a few times, I wish we'd have gone farther north than Damariscotta in the past. Everything from Patton Point northward was f'ing fabulous. Like, I'd-love-to-live-there fabulous.

I mean, not the ticks. But ticks are supposed to be 2x-3x worse this year, nationally, than any decades prior (tho I don't recall why)

 

Just buy new control arms, this is some shit.

 

Little sneak peek into the swing out build. I like it so far…might lower the height of the tire a little as well as push it closer to the truck. Thoughts?

 

From a safety perspective, I think that makes for one hell of a blind spot any time you need to turn right.

 

This picture is a bad angle, the edge of the tire is actually to the inside of the body line. I can’t even see it in my side mirror

 

I meant thru the back window. Shell is already impeding view, but that tire reduces half of your visibility out the back window of the shell, effectively cutting out, what, like 30 °or 40° of your direct-line-of-sight viz?

 

Those wolf box dash cams are really handy for this. Mine is mounted on my bed rack and I get a much wider field of view than a regular mirror.

 

I have given up looking out my rear view mirror at this point lol. Can barely see anything anyways, my rear view mirror is primarily used to see my kids in the back seat