Found my new favorite thing to do.
Skydiving
There is no other rush quite like skydiving that I have found. The free-fall is a 60 second adrenaline filled flash (drop 15k to 5.5k @ 125 mph). The canopy ride (5.5k to ground) is the most serene experience in which you soar, free as a bird, in the most quiet environment for what seems like hours (just amazed at how utterly quiet it was up there...). Landing is a piece of cake, nothing really to it. The best part, walking over to the door and jumping out of a perfectly operating aircraft - never felt anything quite like stepping off the plane and beginning to fall to earth).
Three jumps - one tandem and two student jumps (working towards solo jumps). Here is a video of the free fall from my second jump. (you'll notice I was required to perform 3 practice pulls - you can also see I was pretty locked in on the altimeter, didn't want to miss my pull height of 5.5k)
Thanks to the gang out at Skydive Tecumseh, great instructors, lot's of fun, and not a gomer in the bunch.
