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Tales of an AirBnB Host

Guest of the Week, #1 — Rohit Sky Dives

Photo by Kamil Pietrzak on Unsplash — that is NOT Rohit! But I bet he’d like it to be!

Rohit found us through an AirBnB booking at my home.

He lives in upstate New York, but he does skydiving here, in the Hudson Valley, in the beautiful plains at the base of the Shawangunk Mountains, out of Gardiner, New York. The local skydiving business is famous around these parts. Area photographers love to go and capture photos with fabulous backgrounds and colorful parachutes. Parachutes attached to crazy people who like to jump out of airplanes.

He booked a room in order to stay for two nights. First night, so he could get a good night’s rest in preparation for the next day’s jump. Then a good night’s rest after the jump before driving back home.

I got to spend a little bit of time chatting with Rohit during his first visit here.

Some things I was surprised to learn about skydiving from Rohit:

There is an organization called United States Parachute Association (USPA) that provides support, certifications and licensing for this activity. Who knew? They even have competitions!

So it isn’t just lunatics jumping out of planes. Whew. That’s a relief. Safety First!

Rohit told me that when he got started, he only intended to jump once, just for fun. Just to have the experience. I would imagine that happens a lot. A lot being relative.

It is not an activity on MY bucket list.

Rohit in my kitchen, chilling and resting up for the next day’s jump. Photo by yours truly.

Rohit mentioned that on his way to do his first solo jump, his Uber driver tried to talk him out of it. Nice to know that Uber drivers still care.

Rohit told me he has since done 35 solo jumps.

I gasped and said, “WOW!”

Who wouldn’t? (nod to Wes Anderson)

He then added that he met a guy who has done 6000 jumps.

I guess it’s addictive! Another reason why I don’t want to do it. I have an addictive personality.

I busted out laughing.

I asked him, “How do you even keep count at that level? Don’t you just stop counting jumps after like, a thousand?”

The good news is, he survived another day of jumps. And he just booked the room again for 2 nights next week. So we’ll be seeing each other again real soon.

Plus, added bonus! He signed up on Medium during his last visit! I’m trying to convince him that he should write about his adventures. There’s so few good stories on Medium about skydiving.

This is a new series! Follow and come back each week on Thursdays.

Tales of an AirBnB Host

Guest of the Week — #2, Armando the Amazing

Here are my other series:

Conversations with a Zen Master

Modern Day Koan Musings #3

Zen 51

A Haiku Series

Nothing In Common

A Simple Story #2 — The Tent

New series coming soon to a MuddyUm outlet near you!

Dear Abigail

and Harry Houdini and Kelly’s Corner

Susan Brearley is a published book author, writer, editor, essayist, occasional comedy writer, and an accidental poet. She is currently working on her second book, a murder mystery about an OCD detective, who’s been called a “young version of Monk”. She’s a retired systems engineer and salesperson from IBM, a serial entrepreneur, and a survivor of a stage 4 inflammatory breast cancer since 1995. She’s also working on her US Coast Guard Captain’s license, has her US Sailing keelboat certification, and is the creator and elder teacher of a new program, “VisionQuest” that mentors and teaches adults of all ages how to create the life they were born to live. She is currently based in the mid-Hudson Valley, New York.