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I have wanted to go skydiving for years now. I have no idea why I didn’t do it yet, maybe I just like the idea of going, but it was something I always I figured I would do eventually. There was just something about New Zealand that makes you want to jump out of airplanes, or bungee jump off bridges, or any other sort of random extreme sport.

I wasn’t really thinking of skydiving while on the South Island until I met Eric over in Queenstown. We were chatting, he really wanted to go skydiving, but was looking for someone to do it as well and I figured what the heck. We attempted to do skydiving twice in Queenstown but had no luck with the weather, and then I tried another time at Franz Josef Glacier and again the weather did not want to cooperate. At this point I was determined to accomplish a task that I had originally not even set out to do, and I was running low on time. This probably would be my last chance. Continue reading →