Our new life in the Ozarks: Saying goodbye to an old Buddy .............

We recently decided it was "necessary" for me to purchase a Jeep Wrangler , since we "need" a four wheel drive vehicle to get around in when the winter weather comes in a few months. After many nights of poring over Craigslist ads and surfing Jeep Wrangler forum boards , I found a nice clean one for a good price and we jumped on it .... Jeeps sell very quickly around here .

Well .... to help pay for the Jeep ..... the Ranger pickup had to go .

I have had the Ranger for about two years now , and it has been a good truck to me and carried its loads well. From sitting for hours in Texas heat idling with the air conditioning on so I could have a cool break from a tormenting job , to pulling an overloaded trailer behind a stuffed full camper shell when we moved up here last December .... it has served me well. I priced it the same as I paid for it two years ago , since it has only 54,000 miles on it even though it was a 96 model pickup . My only costs that I had with the truck , were a new battery , some shocks , a few emissions sensors and expenses putting together my custom camper I built to camp in it . All together , maybe 1000.00 ...... not bad for two years of driving . I had a tremendous response on my ad , and sold it for 4500.00 about 5 or 6 days after I listed it . I hated to see it drive away , but the money will go back to help fill in the cavity in our savings account that we pulled out to pay for the Jeep . We have been really blessed to have been able to purchase our cars outright , without financing them , by saving money and by selling our cars before they get in bad shape , thereby recouping a good chunk of our investment . So now we start saving again ... Penny is next , in a year or so.

Anyway .... so long to a good friend !