Truck Detour

We ended our visit with Carrie, Stephen and Zack (and Abbey and Sophie and Mo and Joe) and headed towards Whitehouse TX on Monday to see Leah, James, Megan and Paige (and Lucky and Ears).

We decided to stop at Rainbow's End RV Park in Livingston TX. This is the Escapee's park where our mail is sent and is our official home address. We were just going to stay a couple of days to tour the park, but the guy right behind us had a 2008 Ford F450 pick-up truck; and as I always do when I see one, I asked him how he liked it. He said he loved it but was trading it in on Thursday. I asked why he was trading it in if he liked it; he said he just trades for a new truck every two years (the truck he's getting is the same, only a 2010). Since I have been looking at this model of truck for a couple of years I thought we might have a chance at buying a slightly used one that was in good shape.

I have talked to Ron about where he has been with the truck (40,000 miles including Alaska) and what problems he has had (none). He has already made his deal so he has no reason to be anything but honest. We have been to the dealership, they confirmed that Ron maintains his trucks by the book and trades with them for a new one every 1-1/2 to 2 years. His "old" truck should be ready to sell on Monday (they're giving us first chance) so we are going to hang around until then to see what kind of a deal we can make.