It wasn't my first choice of activities. Thom's parents did it last year because his mom wanted to get over her fear of heights. They enjoyed it so he suggested to them that we do it with them. I was not really excited about it. Seriously, why jump out of a perfectly good plane? Plus it's not cheap! Since I fell off the cliff mountain biking Umpqua, I have been more than a little leery about "death" to either side when mountain biking. Jumping out of a plane wasn't going to do anything to assuage my fear, but comparing it to mountain biking made all my nerves go away. The tandem guy does all the work. He doesn't want to die and he certainly doesn't want his customer to die. Therefore, it must be safer than mountain biking!

It did turn out to be a pretty cool experience and we'll think about doing it when we travel some place with interesting geography.

Veronica