It was again dreary and a little depressing. Went for a walk around the park. This is a beautiful park complete with full hookups. This surprised me because it is in the middle of no where, Portland is the closest city about 35 miles away, then there is Hood River about 41 miles away. There are a couple of smaller towns not much to them. There are a couple of trails that start here at the park that go to waterfalls.
Monday morning dawned again with it raining. Pat called to go over our mail. We discovered that BCBS had canceled out insurance for non-payment. We knew that had to be a mistake, they were suppose to be taking our payments out of Joe's pension. So we spent about 3 hours on the phone with Fidelity, they handle all GM retirement problems. No one could figure out what happened. We were told we would be reinstated but we should have the payment taken out of our checking automatically. Long story short we were transferred to yet another rep to accomplish this. She again looked at our account and it is a mess. She tried to set up auto payment but couldn't because we are already signed up for it to be taken out of our pension. So why wasn't it. They have opened a ticket to find out what went wrong. In the mean time we have been reinstated but not fully until Thursday. So all this time Joe and I have been doing some pretty big hikes that could have injured one or both of us at any time with no knowledge that we didn't have insurance. What a mess!
I was pretty stressed by the time we were off the phone so we decided to go for a nice drive in the rain up to Hood River. We spent the night there on one of our bike trips and it is a really nice town. On the way we stopped at Cascade Lock and had lunch at a cafe next to the Columbia River. This is one big river. We watched the big paddle boat come in and let passengers off, not many on it, and then take more on, only about 4 people. Lunch was pretty good for this little cafe inside the visitor center.
Hood River was as I remembered it, we went to the hotel we stayed in and to the brewery we ate dinner at Joe thought about going in and having a beer, but I was cold and a beer did not sound good. We went to a coffee house and I had an Almond Joy Latte and Joe got an ice tea. Low and behold the sun came out for about 15 minutes. You learn to appreciate the sun every time is shows it self. I know most of you are fighting 110 degree temps, I say appreciate it, it could be cloudy and rainy everyday.
On our way back to the park the rain started up again. :0(
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