Another weekend on the road...

This last weekend *Oct. 3rd* was supposed to be our weekend home to relax and clean up after being gone. Yeah that went right out the window about the middle of the week. Jared has been looking into buying a truck for about 4 months now. He has been very picky with what he wants i.e. Dodge Dakota, v8 magnum engine, 4wd, 5 speed manual. Those kinds of things :) Everyone kept tell him that he wouldn't ever find what he wanted because there was only like three within 500 miles of our house and he already looked at two of them and they were garbage. A few months ago he saw one listed on Auto Trader for $7,500. He asked the owner to send him some pictures but we didn't really want to spend that much money because we have huge car payments on my RX8.

Well, on Wednesday Jared was doing his nightly car prowl and found the same truck on Auto Trader again but this time it was listed as $4,500. He got so excited and was pretty much begging me to make an offer. So I said that's fine and he called the guy and made arrangements to come look at on Saturday. The only catch....It was a 5 and half hour drive to where the kid lived. So he got all of the things needed to purchase the truck prepared and we reserved a hotel room. (I told him I was not driving 10 hours in one day. Especially if we only got like two hours at the destination before getting back in the car) Saturday morning at 5:00 am Jared woke me up and we gathered Tico *He was my traveling buddy* and drove to San Luis Obispo in central California.

As soon as Jared saw the truck he fell in love! We had a mechanic check it out and everything was great. So we started a deal with the owner. We ended up purchasing the truck and took the price down from $4,500 to a grand total of $4,150. We were happy. Now the fun journey of selling my old Acura begins. After listing it on craigslist we had a biter 20 minutes later. So far we have three people wanting to look at it today and two others that called to ask. So far so good!

Mike (The old Owner) Handing over the keys to Jared

He is so happy!

Starting it for the first time as the new owner..he likes the way it purrs lol

Can you tell he loves it?

He is a good travel buddy. He would peek around and then when I would look at him again I saw this.

He was so comfortable he was sleeping.