Oh the Places You'll Go
We're all busy and there's alot going on in the world, so this is my microcosm of reality and way to enable everyone to share in my experiences in Austin and around the world and maybe help create some of your own. Consider it a life "to-do" list, "have done" list, photo album and journal all in one.Archive for adventures
such great heights
I was looking through my “to do” list because if I end up going to Coachella this year that will be another thing I get to cross off (there have been a ton in the last two years that I’ve been able to check off!) I stopped when I saw “sky dive” crossed off on there. First of all, I didn’t even realize I had that on there and it very well could’ve been one of those things I added after it was done because 1) it was so freaking cool/scary/incredible/indescribable I had to add it and 2) if I didn’t add it at first it was because I felt like it was really unoriginal – like everyone has skydive and bungi jump on their to-do lists, right? Anyway, I got a weird chill all over because I still can’t believe I jumped out a plane 10,000 feet in the air. I also am so happy that we decided to go back after waiting around for hours because of weather delays, taking friends back home that had to be back at a certain time and then turning right around to go back because we were so disappointed and let down that we had built up all the courage for this day and had to go through with it. When you ask someone what it feels like to jump out of the plane, they always say “indescribable.” I didn’t understand and thought it has to feel like something you can describe, but now I’m one of those people that uses that word and it’s completely true. It’s like going so fast, yet completely still at the same time and it’s by far the biggest rush I’ve had in my entire life. Okay, so I guess I described it a little but you still have to do it because words really can’t describe the full feeling. I have always meant to send a thank-you note to my guy – the one that was strapped to my back and
had to listen to me talk non-stop the entire time because I was so nervous. He was so awesome, and you have to love an Intel computer engineer who is a skydiver on the weekends – perfect combination of patience, intelligence and just enough nerdiness to make you feel as safe as can be when jumping out of a plane (I had no idea what he was talking about but he was calculating altitude and velocity and about a million other things on this huge Inspector Gadget-like watch). The free fall was about one minute and the first five seconds out of the plane was the scariest time of my entire life, but it quickly fades as you make the fall and when the parachute finally opens it is the most amazing view of Austin and the surrounding area. It was SO cool. Vinny and I were completely giddy when we left (hence the sky dive company’s warning that cops wait right outside Skydive San Marcos waiting for giddy post divers on a speed high).
