I want to show-off my big truck. Her name is Serenity and she’s a 1978 Kenworth K100. She’s one of the few things remaining to me that puts a big smile across my face. I do love driving her.

She sure fills my driveway. Doesn’t she?

Here she is shortly before I bought her. Now, why can’t I have a parking spot like that?

Serenity used to work in Yreka, California. Here she is hooked to a furniture van.

Looks good. Doesn’t she?

My plans for her include exchanging the little flatbed for a large, 80-inch or so, sleeper box that will be fitted nicely to the existing cab. The front tandem axle will be removed and a long, two-piece drive shaft  will connect the transmission to the big Eaton rear axle. 1:3.55 gears will replace the 1:4.11s, a fixed 5th wheel will replace the existing slider, and eventually, an old single axle double-drop deck moving van trailer, 35-48-foot RV conversion, will be her recreation-load (as opposed to “pay-load”). She’ll carry a fully-equipped ham radio station in the sleeper, or maybe in the trailer, with just a mobile rig in the cab. At this stage, it’s all pretty much up in the air, so far as the radios are concerned.

In a nutshell, I intend to be able to live, fully self-contained, in either the truck, the trailer, and/or both.

It’s an ambitious project, to be sure. However, I think it’ll be fun watching it all come together.