A New Truck for the Homestead

After several years of renting cars (expensive and not very helpful) plus borrowing trucks and cars from Bobby and Jodi, we figured it was time to get our own vehicle.  Also, our camper trailer is only capable of being pulled by something the size of an F-350 and we've wound up borrowing John Denson Sr's dually a couple of times to move the trailer or for the kids to take it to the beach.

No more borrowing but the John Denson clan (Sr and Jr) have had a hand in this one.  I found several trucks on CraigsList and John Jr voluteered to check this one out.  Others checked out a couple of others.  She's a 2001 Ford F-350, V-10 with a really good towing rear end, so she'll do the job and now that we're moving ahead on the Barndominium, when we leave after this trip to Texas, both the truck and the camper trailer will be parked inside the barn.  This should add life to the trailer which, for the past few years, has been outside.  We'll be really happy to have the vehicles inside and given all the construction and other activities, having our own truck is almost an essential.  Time to be a little more self-reliant.  Sorry about the gas mileage.  The vehicle we drive the most will either be a hybrid or very high fuel efficiency vehicle.  The truck will be a short haul, towing or heavy cargo specialty vehicle.  Here's some pictures.  The truck will be at John Sr's house when we fly into Texas, so a quick taxi over to his house and we'll head to the "ranch" with the new truck.