Yes, there were errands that needed to be run.  The sun was shining through the front window and showing off the dust in the living room… such a beautiful day outside!  I just had to indulge in a ride.  I can dust on a cloudy day.

 

Sunny and almost 60 degrees. Not a cloud in the sky. I had to go for a ride.

We celebrated our five year wedding anniversary by going to Las Vegas.  While we were there we took a helicopter tour that flew us into the Grand Canyon where we had a picnic lunch.  It was an amazing experience.  The helicopter seemed to just hang and float in the air, defying gravity.  The Grand Canyon is huge.  No picture can do it justice.

Anyway, my picture for the photo challenge “down” is a picture I took from the helicopter, looking down at the floor of the Grand Canyon.

Looking down into the Grand Canyon

I regret to say that I have fallen behind on the weekly photo challenge.  I had a hard time coming up with a photo that represented “regret.”  Usually when bad things happen I don’t think to reach for my camera.  We thought of staging a couple of senarios to photograph, but did not get around to it by the Friday deadline.  Finally I decided to post a pic of Eric’s bruise from when he broke his collar bone.  We were riding through farm country and came up behind a pick-up truck pulling wobbly trailer full of loose junk.  It’s not safe to ride behind something like that… the trailer could break free and hit us or some of the loose junk could fly out and hit us.  Eric went to pass and the driver of the truck didn’t feel like anyone should pass him.  So he deliberately ran Eric off the road.  Eric narrowly missed some trees, but his front tire hit a hole and Eric was thrown over the handlebars and broke his collar bone.

The kid driving the truck regretted getting caught.  The kids parents regretted letting him drive that day.  (He had just gotten his license.)  I regret that my cell phone did not have service, so I could not call the police.    Eric could have been hurt a lot worse than just a broken collar bone.

Eric's broken collar bone bruise.

I was ready to receive this photo challenge last Friday, but it didn’t show up until Sunday.  I didn’t see it until Monday.  By that time I was no longer ready.  In fact, I forgot about it until today when I received the next photo challenge!

I’m cheating a little… I did not take this picture, my husband did.

I'm ready for my run!

 

This picture was taken at the Bonneville Salt Flats at Bub Motorcycle Speed Trials in 2008.  After a week of helping the guys, on the last day they let me ride the race bike.  I was in a class called “Run What You Brung.”  This class allows you to run pretty much anything and wear your street gear.  This class does not qualify for a record, but you get to ride on the track and you get a timing slip.  Pretty cool.  After a week of watching everyone else race, I was ready for a run!

There is always hope in the dawn of a new day. 7/3/11