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...next morning we went back and tried again. On this third trip in the truck, I began to have a small, albeit very small, amount of faith in our driver. I also managed to keep my eyes fixed on the floor of the truck for the duration of the ride and, as if he read my mind, the driver let us out before performing his dance with death...
When we alighted, Sugar informed us that the conditions were excellent and that we'd be able to jump. When I met my pilot, Eric, he asked me how I was feeling before I took flight. I said I was just glad to be out of the truck, neglecting to mention the most recent bout of nausea and accompanying thoughts of "What am I doing?!" But as he spread out the parachute and we attached our harnesses, and the chute filled with air and jerked us even higher than our take-off point, thoughts of plummeting to my death were...
...whirl. And I lived to tell about it--that is, rave about it. Of our eight person party, only four were stalwart enough to sign up (and pay the $100 it cost). At around 7:30 p.m. we set out in the back of a rickety pickup truck for a 45-minute drive to the top of a 6,500-foot mountain on a dirt road exactly the width of the truck's wheel-base. As the non-English speaking driver shifted into lower and lower gear in an attempt to climb the mountain and I looked over the side...
...what little wind there was was blowing in the wrong direction. I pretended I didn't notice the bewildered stares of my friends when I asked Sugar if he thought we could at least try. Alas, no. In a matter of minutes we were loaded back in the truck for the even scarier trip down the mountain with plans to return early the next morning for a sunrise jump...
HYBRID'S HYBRID Chrysler led the design revolution in the 1990s with streamlined, low-slung road rockets that all but did away with the notion of a hood. For 2025, Bryan Nesbitt, designer of today's PT Cruiser, above, envisions a mix of minivan, sport utility and pickup truck...