Looking back at Big Red 🛻

It happens every time I park Big Red. To think those days will be over before I know it. I told Mom I didn’t want a State Parks Pass this year as I’m planning to go to Northern Michigan / Wisconsin next summer once I get a new truck – but I don’t know. I loathe to leave Big Red behind. Especially, a small little Toyota Tacoma seems like such a step down from Big Red. Like a step backward. Maybe that’s why I’m still half seriously thinking about getting a 3/4 ton long bed work-truck type F-250 or Silverado, probably red in color, though I know that’s not the right option for me as soon enough I’ll have a house and have to commute and gas ‘er up for reasons beyond fun. But every time I see that developer at Colonie Town Hall with his big regular cab F-250 4×4, I have to think I so want his truck.

I tell you Big Red is no fun to drive in traffic, especially on narrow streets, and in tight parking spots behind businesses. Normally I don’t drive Big Red in the city but when I do it’s not a lot of fun for sure. Backing up slowly, watching your angles, peaking around the mirrors, knowing you have enormous blind spots, especially around back – as my truck is much too old to have a backup camera. Really was in a tight parking spot the other day, and I was reminded how much I dislike having to drive Red in such places. And to get another big truck like that, at least while I still have to drive from time to time in the city and in tighter lots and spots, makes me really not want another big truck. But a Toyota Tacoma just seems so tiny, especially when I park my big jacked up truck near my neighbors little truck. But just think how much easier such a truck would be to drive, and how much better it would be on gas. I know. But I’ll miss Big Red.