good food, good rides

Today's adventures started with a trip to the grocery store with Lucy riding shotgun. We picked up everything I need to cook dinner for this week. Here's to hoping that the rest of the week goes better than tonight. I made a black bean and mango salad, which is really good for those who like non-traditional salads and is very easy to make, just rinse a can of black beans and then combine with cut mango, cilantro, a roasted jalapeno and the juice of two limes. It's very tasty in my opinion but did not fly with the boyfriend. Thankfully, Lucy likes most of those ingredients and between her and I it won't go to waste. I served that with my fajitas which were pretty traditional I just added some of the extra jalapeno and cilantro to the mix as it cooked. Those turned out phenomenal.

But before I ever got to the making of dinner I took myself on a short motorcycle ride to Lake Michigan. I like to go there to get my head back on straight when I forget that the world doesn't revolve around me.

Today I decided to make it an extra treat and took along a partaga's black label cigar and picked up a bar of dark chocolate and a cup of coffee when I got to the beach to accompany it. The ride to the Lake was very exhilarating and I love the connection between me and the open road. I couldn't help but notice all the beautiful smells of spring, the flowers, fresh cut grass, oh...and the livestock LOL...guess you get one with the other. :)

I spent a good bit of time reading a new book. It's Deepak Chopra's Secrets of Life . While I don't need a lot of help at the lake getting inspired to feel a great connection to nature and the creator I find that his writings make it very easy. It's such a grand sense of just being that overcomes me when I'm sitting there staring at the vastness of the lake and enjoying the sounds that accompany it.

All decked out in my motorcycle gear I was approached by a Jehovah's witness on my way to a favorite spot. I smiled and was very kind when I told him I didn't care to see his copy of the Watchtower. He apparently was feeling very led to stop everyone on that particular path as I heard him and saw him speak to many people...too bad all of his flyers were not placed in their proper receptacles.

I left feeling so very refreshed and charged up for a good week. I was in such a great frame of mind to come home and make dinner for my love and hopefully get to enjoy just being with him...minus video games would have been a nice change, but I guess I can't ask for too much at once. Unfortunately all my great feelings about left when the woman in the black subaru thought she needed to pass too many cars at one time thinking that my spot in the line was a place she could get to. I became rather angry when I found myself in a position of being tailgated by her and it was only perpetuated when the car I was now closer than I cared to be to had to come to a stop to turn left. Thankfully, I am a skilled rider and was not in any real danger as I could safely maneuver around her. But, my anger went through the roof when the black subaru followed me around the other car on the shoulder and then proceeded to continue to tailgate me.

I can't say there was anything positive about that exchange and I hope that this driver realizes before she causes an accident that driving her steel cage on four wheels too close to a completely uncovered and unprotected motorcyclist on two wheels is very dangerous for the motorcycle rider only...she would have come out in no way harmed verses me.