Richard's New Ride

So, I have been guilty of blog neglect so this post is belated (as will be the next few). But I figure, better late than never.

So when Richard came home from a business trip in February, he told me that the day we had been putting off, he was afraid, had finally come....time to get him a new car. His little 1994 Mazda Protege was on it's last leg and would most definitely cost more to fix than what it is worth. We bought it off my brother almost 3 years ago, who had purchased it from my parents. So it had been well driven and its 175,000+ miles showed it.

Richard does not have to drive very far too work and 2 out of 5 days a week he tries to work from home to off set the time when he has to be out of town, so we decided that a car for him was not worth going into debt for. So we set our budget and the hunt began.

We really wanted to get a truck, because as Richard's older brother once said "You can do S@*T with a truck." Well, that's not the only reason. We are constantly needing to haul or transport something where a minivan just won't do. So as to not bother our poor neighbors (Thanks! Ritchie's) anymore, we focused on models of trucks. And when this little truck showed up on KSL's classifieds we got excited and 2 days later took it for a test drive (a long with a couple others) and decided this was the one.

Richard talked the guy down $250, which was good since upon registering it we had to spend that much to fix a tie rod. Anyways it's not new, but it is new to us, and we are enjoying doing "Stuff" with it!