Our New Truck!

Tom has been researching trucks for several months. He really was taken with the GMC one-ton. Unfortunately, no one around us carries the one-ton. We searched on line and went to all the GMC dealers in and around Wichita and they only had ¾ ton. We were in Wichita one day and decided to look at Ford on-tons. We were at a dealer in Augusta and there were several to pick from! We drove one and loved it. We decided we needed to be open to a Ford too.

Tom found a dealer in St. Louis and in Arkansas that carries GMC one-tons and he downloaded information on several. The prospect of driving there was not appealing and the idea of buying one without seeing it was not a great idea either.

On May 27^th we were in Kansas City for the weekend to visit Sasha and Ryan and family. We googled and found TWO one-ton GMC’s in Olathe Kansas. So, we drove down there with Sasha and baby Parker. One was black and one was charcoal so I told them I wanted to drive the charcoal. Long story… we bought the charcoal GMC Denali!!!

I drove it off the lot in heavy downtown traffic and was not comfortable at all! Tom and I switched places midway back to Sasha’s house. It is huge!! And beautiful! And it's quite able to pull our 5^th wheel. We just kept looking at each other and saying, “Well, we did it. Now we are committed and we have to do this crazy thing we are planning!” It sat in the driveway for two weeks before we actually drove it again. We have it insured through State Farm along with everything else. They can’t insure us once we sell the house and live in the 5^th wheel full time though. We have checked around and think we will go through Good Sam’s.