We have been enjoying our stay here at Bend/Sunriver TTN. There are a lot of pickleball players coming & going. Unfortunately my serve (which was never very good) has decided to go on vacation. I will have to practice on that.
Last Wednesday we decided to go to Bend & begin the process of mfinding a new truck. We have had our 2001 Dodge Ram since December 2000 & we felt it was time to get a new truck as we will be getting a bigger trailer, more on that later. We met a very nice young salesman at the Ram Dealership & explained our situation. Jesse said he could help us find what we wanted. We sat down with him & did a build of our ideal truck. Jesse then did a search of the database & said there were none available with everything we wanted. Being a good salesman, he then showed us several models they had on the lot with much more in the way of options that they wanted to sell. We got some prices & went home.
The next day, Thursday, I went back & told Jesse that I did not want to spend more than what my build truck would cost. He talked to the sales manager & we were able to come to a tentative agreement on price. Again, I went home to discuss the deal with Barbara.
Friday we went in & signed the papers to get our new truck. It has many upgrades & options that I would not have ordered but we feel most of them were discounted or not charged to us in the final price. The truck did not have running boards or a spay in bedliner so we left the truck with the dealer until Tuesday to have those installed.
Tuesday we went in to trade our old V10 Dodge Ram 2500 for our new 6.7L Cummins diesel, 6speed automatic transmission, Ram 3500 crew cab. It was kind of sad leaving the old Dodge. We had it for a long time & had 98000 miles on it.
