On This Day in 2013: Remembering My HALO Jump!

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
-Leonardo da Vinci



So today marks 10 years since I flew to Tennessee to do a HALO jump!

According to my jumpmaster on that flight (who's also the owner of Halojumper.com, the website that I booked this jump through), I was apparently the first Filipino ever to do a civilian HALO tandem skydive! Pretty cool...if true.

I found out last year (through one of my brothers, who also told me about the Tennessee-based HALO jump back in 2006) that I can travel up to Northern California to leap out of a plane from 30,000 feet in the air! (I live in Los Angeles County.)

This comes courtesy of SkyDance Skydiving...which is based in the NorCal city of Davis.

Unfortunately, the SkyDance Skydiving website doesn't mention the price of a HALO tandem jump—but I'm guessing it might be in the 4-figure dollar range like my skydive in Tennessee! If it is, then it's all good if I don't end up doing it; my goal was to jump from the altitude that passenger jets cruise in on their flights at least once.

I have other activities remaining on my bucket list to achieve! Anyways, here are photos from my high-altitude, low-opening skydive in 2013...

LINK: Click here for more images from my HALO tandem skydive















"Sometimes you have to go up so high to realize just how small you really are."
-Felix Baumgartner (October 14, 2012)