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Hello all- I just purchased some new camera gear and I am loving camera flying! It puts a huge smile and my face to see people enjoying themselves in free fall for the first time. Since my boyfriend started working as a tandem instructor, I don't get to jump with him anymore. Well, now that I'm flying camera for him, we get to jump together! Funny how things work out like that sometimes, huh?

I've been jumping at Skydive 35 recently, and I had a mini-adventure the other day. The upper winds were surprisingly strong, and on deployment I made the mistake of tracking AWAY from the landing area. I was so far away, I decided that I'm not even going to try and land there. Besides, if I did try, I knew I would be landing downwind. That's not a big deal, but if I'm going to be landing and be completely alone, then I don't want to be injured where there's no one around to help me. I looked down and starting looking at houses, thinking to myself, "Well, there's a car parked in the driveway at that house. Maybe someone is home that can give me a ride back." There were a lot of dirt roads, but there was a paved road that made it easy to get back to the drop zone. Plus there were no power lines or obstacles. So I landed there and some drove up, not 15 seconds later. The lady was so nice to drive me back. I guess with all of that skydiving gear, I didn't look like a serial killer!!