Clear My Mind

After the events of the past few days I decided that today would be a good day to stretch my legs and clear my mind. As usual I took a hike into Coloma this morning but wanted to hike up to the Marshall Monument. Now there are two trails that lead to the monument. One is one mile roundtrip and the other is 3.4 miles along the Coloma ridgeline. So since one of the reasons for my hike was to stretch my legs, I decided to hike the ridgeline. I enjoy the ridgeline because very few people hike up there so it is quiet and very peaceful. A great place for me to clear my mind. All in all my hike this morning ended up being 5.63 miles.

On January 24th I took my truck to the dealer where I purchased it for some service. The engine had an oil leak that needed to be addressed and it was time for the 90,000 mile service. The dealer has always given me great service in the past, but not so much this time. What was supposed to be a one to two day job ended up taking seven business days, nine days all together. When Barbara and I went to pick it up on Tuesday, February 1st, it wasn’t ready when we arrived. They still needed to take it for a test drive. However, during the test drive it was determined that the transmission was not shifting. When the service manager told me of this issue, I indicated that the transmission was working fine when I brought it in. He agreed. So they now needed to address the issue with the transmission. The next day everything change. The service manager called in the morning and stated that the transmission was damaged before I brought it in and indicated that it would need to be replaced. He wanted to replace it with a used transmission from a salvage yard and I told him no. I stated that if it is damaged that they either rebuild it or replace it with a remanufactured transmission from General Motors (GM). This began what turned out to be two days of arguing back and forth on how the transmission was to be taken care of. Even the store manager called me and stated that he would only put the salvage yard transmission into my truck and nothing else. This totally did not make sense to me because the transmission is still under warranty. What was the issue? Finally this morning the service manager indicated, in and email, that they would replace my transmission with a remanufactured transmission from GM. We hopefully will be able to pick our truck up early next week, more than two weeks after I dropped it off. So after all of this I needed to get out and stretch my legs and clear my mind.