Did you check out Times Square?
We sure did! It's like another planet. A planet full of very hot chicks. Wow! For anyone who has never been to Times Square it's kinda like a scene from Star Wars; there's a hot chick here, a business man there, a rapper wannabe here, a cop over there etc. It was entertaining to say the least. I am a small town guy and I like the fact that I don't have to worry about traffic jams and crime but it was really neat to go there and visit for sure.

Okay it's jump day. Millions of people are going to watch you either make it or wad it up trying. Tell us how the day went and don't leave any details out.
Okay here goes...

MORNING...

I woke up and did the shower and shave and all that. I had the most wonderful sleep in the greatest bed I have even been in. I'm telling you I don't think babies sleep this good.

All the time I began to get my mind on what I was there to do. Up to this point I had (on purpose) kept from dwelling on the fact that what I was doing was a huge deal and I needed to pull this thing off.

Tom, my dad and Russ all at one point or another kind of wondered out loud if maybe this might had been a bit more than I bargained for and had a worry or two that I might get hurt.

So far we all had a great time with the trip and all but now it was time to get to business. We pulled out and minutes later we were looming at the huge sign that said "Late Show with David Letterman". We noticed the street beside it except for a fire lane was completely closed down for my jump. Man it really hit me at this time. This was really going to happen!

Next we met up with the crew that would be setting up my ramps. They were all union guys. We were to touch absolutely nothing! Tom started taking pictures of them, my Dad and Russ showed them what had to be done. I just stood there thinking to myself what a long strange road my life had been on Five years ago I would have never dared to think I would be setting up my ramps to jump on David Letterman.

I did have to admit I had a huge grin on my face thinking about all the people that said I would never do this and never do that. I felt that no matter what happened as soon as the ramps started to get unloaded, I won. I mean, I was here and I was doing this and this was really going to happen.

My sister and brother would have loved this and been so proud. My sister knew I was going to meet Evel Knievel back in '98. She was so happy for me. Sadly just a few days she died. It was unexpected and that started me down a road I hope nobody will ever have to go down. A few years later my Dad had a heart attack and that coupled with me going threw a divorce and my best friend - my brother's death. All this happened the same time. It really showed me that we are only here for a short while so you have to live your life how you see fit and do the things you want to do today because you might not ever get a second chance. This is why I began jumping again.

AFTERNOON..

There was certainly a lot going on in the morning. Since I wasn't allowed to help with any of it, I was left with a lot of time on my hands to just to sit and watch a bunch of people I didn't know set up the biggest jump of my life and hopefully not get me killed. Television is a funny thing -- it's never what you think. Everything looks so easy but it isn't. It takes one person to set up a light, one person to plug it in and another to adjust it. From the time we arrived we had union guys pretty much running the show

My friend Russ Belt he is the biggest go-getter I have ever run into. He is a former VP of the biggest bank in town. He just up and quit that high paying gig because it was no longer a challenge for him.
He's now a businessman a couple of times over and a mini sprint car driver. I knew no one could handle or understand all of this quite like Russell. He really is a great friend and I was in very good hands. These big city union guys didn't expect me to bring him and they never knew what hit them.

 

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