Westbound D40∶: I didn't take Dooku's road and spent a day in a daze at Dooku's base camp.

Westbound diary D40: (Sunday 2021/718): single warehouse base camp, with a journey of 0 km.

The weather is cloudy to cloudy, and the temperature is 20-3 1.

Last night, I parked my car at Dooku base camp in Dushanzi area, which was a wasteland a year ago. Now it has built a tourism service complex integrating accommodation hotels, restaurants, night markets, entertainment, single-library highway museums and other facilities. It is also the parking place for sleeping cars and RV in road trip, Xinjiang. Its services and facilities should be the best base camp in Xinjiang and even the whole country, and all of them are free.

Yesterday, we consulted the seniors who had driven many times in Xinjiang. She suggested that we take the Zhuo Ma-Kuqa section of Duku Highway this time, so that we would basically not take the repetitive route in road trip, Xinjiang. Therefore, we plan to go to Sailimu Lake today, wait for Yili to pass by, return to Zhuo Ma section of Dooku Highway from Tamboura Baili Gallery, and then take Dooku Highway.

A good night's sleep still exists. My wife got up at 7: 30, saying that the fellow villagers across from Suzhou went to Kuku Highway by bus, and I didn't get up until 8: 00.

After waking up, I found that many cars parked in this base camp last night had already taken the bus to Independent Library Road. Last night, two college students from Chongqing University Town camped in a tent next to our parking space also got up quickly, cleaned up and said goodbye to us to ride the Duku Highway.

There was no sun on a cloudy day this morning, and the temperature was very cold. Suddenly I didn't want to go, so I stayed at Dooku's base camp for another day to rest.

We rearranged the things in the car first in the morning. This is a big move. First, we put the car on the bed, and a lot of things were spread on the ground. Then, according to the usage frequency of travel goods in these 40 days, put the things that are not commonly used at the bottom, and adjust the things that are commonly used and some foods to easy-to-take positions, so that the things in the car are rearranged and used for almost one morning. At the end, my wife met her pink sister who said "I'll drive" yesterday and gave her a cup of homemade coffee, which was very mellow.

The base camp provides a cooking room for self-driving cars, with a swimming pool outside, many power outlets and an induction cooker inside. At noon, we cooked two cups of rice in an electric pressure cooker for the first time. Together with a large plate of chicken packed in Kuitun yesterday and a small pot of braised chicken rice, we had lunch and dinner.

In the afternoon, the sun came out, we sat in the shade of the RV, my wife chatted with her sister, and I used my rare free time this afternoon to edit three videos. There are still a lot of video materials, so edit them later!

I didn't travel today. I visited the Dooku Highway Museum the next afternoon, so I will share some pictures of the museum with you!

Besides, I am in a daze in this base camp. "I will do what I say, I will drive" gave us a sunshade to connect our small tent with a car, which just cast a cool shadow.