Jumping Out of a Plane at 8,000 Feet

Petrified, My Fingers Dug Into the Side of the Plane as We Exited

James Beaufait
The Daily Cuppa Grande
5 min readJul 7, 2023

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I guarantee you this is not me in the photo. Everything my instructor taught me on the ground disappeared in one nanosecond before we stepped into the void and began free-falling to the earth below.

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James Beaufait
The Daily Cuppa Grande

Living our dream off-grid in Hawaii; passionate about creative expression: Wabi-sabi stories, living and dreaming consciously, and communing with Mother Nature.