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Skydiving

Prompt - November 20, 2012: The topic is skydiving. Would you do it? Or have you done it?





Swede Johanson: Gunny, I'm afraid of heights.





Highway: So am I.





Swede Johanson: You are?





Highway: Jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft is not a natural act. So let's do it right, enjoy the view. Come on.


From the movie Heartbreakridge





It’s not often that I get to quote Clint Eastwood in real life but as to skydiving. Not no but hell no!  There is no reason compelling enough to get me to jump out a plane.





However being a woman and contrary as MaryMary, I think going up in a hot air balloon would be cool. The rate of ascent and descent, would be under my control. I could take photos; wander the countryside meet new people. If I were indulging in comparisons, skydiving would be racing a hydrofoil boat on a river and ballooning is tubing down a lazy stream.  It’s all relative and perspective, I guess.





My hubby thinks I’m nuts because he has skydived but never ballooned. He thinks ballooning is the less safe option because of the fuel required. I dunno. Either way, if something happens, everything is up in the air.


Sorry couldn’t resist.








Lani