A Tribute to Old Red

Where do I start? The beginning I guess. Marc fell in love with his first truck about 6 months before we met. It was a Beautiful, Red, 1998 Ford F150. His bachelor mobile; a symbol of his manhood. But that was only the beginning..........

• We went on our first date in the truck.
• We got engaged in the truck.
• We went to the temple to get married in the truck.
• We have camped hundreds of times with the truck. (Without kids and later with.)
• In fact, we used to be able to go camping and just sleep in the back.
• The poor truck has even hauled our huge camp trailer faithfully.
• One of the things I liked best about the truck is when we had Kennedy we could all ride up front together.
• Another thing I liked is that I always sat in the middle next to Marc.
• We have taken the truck to the drive-in.
• Once it got broken into and someone stole the radio and all of our cd's (I am still bitter if you can't tell.)
• I cannot tell you the countless number of people it has moved! We account for at least 5 moves.
• The truck took Marc all over the valley when he worked for a cabling company; it even once adorned a ladder rack. Old Red also drove him for an entire summer to Sanders, AZ for work.
• The truck has been faithful in taking me and the kids, at various stages, to work.
• We never had one problem with the truck, honestly.
• Well, we did eventually have one problem with the truck; when Carter came along it was TOO small. All four of us could not ride in a three passenger truck.
• We knew we would have to sell it eventually. It just took us a year to come to terms with it. So about a week ago Marc had his sister print For Sale stickers and I started driving it to work. Within a week we had a buyer. It is sad. It was hard on both of us to let it go. It is just such a good truck. Oh well, after ten years and 132,000 Old Red is onto new adventures.
• By the way, Marc would probably have something to add or change about this tribute, but he never reads to the blog so too bad.