So how did I end up jumping off a bridge in Oregon?

There’s really not much to tell. I had said this was The Summer of This Time, not Next Time, and on Sunday as Rick and I were driving back to Portland, we passed PS Ogden State Park where we’d stopped on the way into Redmond on Friday.

Rick noted that people were bungee jumping off of one of the bridges. We had already driven past when he asked, “Do you want to go bungee jump?” At first, I felt indecisive - not from fear of heights, but more of “What if I get up there and can’t make myself jump off?” We were still driving down the highway when I said, “Yes! Let’s do it!” so Rick did a u-turn, and we went back.

We had to wait for a few people to do their jumps in front of us, including one lady who has jumped many times and one girl who just couldn’t bring herself to jump so she gave the guys permission to push her off. That was comforting to me because I knew that if I couldn’t mentally get myself to jump, the guys working would “help” me.

But as you can see from the video, I had no issue whatsoever walking out, stepping on the X, and jumping after the 1 - 2 -3 countdown.

It was an amazing sensation, and something I would definitely like to do again.

After the fact, we found out this is the tallest commercial bungee jump in North America, so I am thinking we might need to start chasing down some bungee jumping on other continents. Just an idea . . .