“It’s never been an overwhelming desire of mine to jump out of an airplane, but I have always liked roller coaster rides and risk type things, and I just thought, well, I’d like to do it,” he explained. “I wouldn’t call it fun, but it’s a sensation I would never experience anywhere else.”
Ahead of his birthday, staff at Horizon House collaborated with a local skydiving business to organize a birthday party and a dive which at least 40 friends and family members came to support. Williamson said he had second thoughts before jumping out of the plane, but when he finally jumped, he called the dive “a thing of exhilaration.”
“The experience is somewhat similar to being in a hurricane, except there isn’t a palm tree to hold on to,” Williamson joked. “You’re just in the air, totally vulnerable. You can see the mountains and both sides over here; we have the Rockies on one side and [Mount] Olympus on the other. It was a gorgeous day, and it was thrilling.”
