I'm going to switch it up a bit. Normally my blog is well mine and I write very little about other people who are living their life like it should be, free! It's a story about a cat named chachi(jon sassone) that is blowing up the windsurfing scene with innovation and talent. Welcome to chaci's world....
Through my younger years i was attracted to hanging out with people that got shit done and well there is no other way to explain this guy. From weekends up at the mountains snowboarding alone taking a bus or carpool how ever possible, but he always did what he wanted to do. Not only did he do many things but everything he touched became second nature to this naturally talented sportbidextrous. I heard he became a pro windsurfer and i remember him when he started giving lessons at a small beach in my town. So i decided to look him up and see where it all took him.
After high school we parted ways and chachi attended stony brook university were he got his degree. After , he decided to pursue his dream of becoming a pro windsurfer his first trip was life changing Bonaire 2009. He met a few euros during his sty that told him stories about how they traveled for months at a time. He was so inspired within a month of returning to home him and his girlfriend packed a Hyundai and road tripped it from long island,ny to Hood River,oregon. This being one of the windiest places on the planet he spent 6 months there. Working part time jobs to get by, focusing on windsurfing, kayaking,snowboarding and traveling. Here's how it went.
"We drove throughout the state, which is filled with mountains, deserts, rain forests, lakes, and rivers."
In September, instead of returning to New York, we went to central California (another windsurfing hotbed) where Amy was offered a contract in her field of marine biology. From there found a whole new range of places to travel to, I even made a trip to Mexico where I scored some epic waves.
There were some set backs along the way, we got caught in a sudden white out blizzard while driving through Wyoming, on our way cross country, with no towns within 50 miles. My car was totalled in Oregon by a drunk driver, I was unemployed for 5 months (which held back our travels a bit) and then I was badly hurt in Mexico with the closest hospital being 6 hours away.
Things go wrong, you just have to deal with I guess. In the case where my car was totalled, I actually got a nice insurance check which I used to buy the van that became my hotel on wheels and helped Amy and I make some weekend trips that we wouldn't have done otherwise. I gutted it and now I can drive just about anywhere I want and sleep in the back.
We went to so many new places in the last year; drove cross country after Bonaire, went to Portland, the Columbia River Gorge, the Oregon Coast, Crater Lake, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, San Francsisco, San Diego, Baja, Santa Cruz, Ano Nuevo and more.
Currently I'm in a town called Lodi (the same one in the CCR song.) It's close to a place called Rio Vista, which this time of year is usually windy every day. Around Mid June I'm going back to the Oregon Coast for a windsurfing contest, and after that I'd like to head back to Portland and the Gorge. There's so much to do that even living there for 6 months wasn't enough time to do it all. In the fall I was going to do the Gulf, but with the Oil spill I might have to wait a bit. I'm definately going to visit Cape Hatteras at some point before winter sets in. "
"Who knows, I've never really planned anything out more than a month in advance, I've just been going with the flow the last year and a half, and it's been working out great."
"You can check him and his adventures out at his blog:http://windchachi.blogspot.com/ were he gives you the scoop on windsurfing and good life all in one.Good Luck Chachi and keep on making your dreams a reality!
After high school we parted ways and chachi attended stony brook university were he got his degree. After , he decided to pursue his dream of becoming a pro windsurfer his first trip was life changing Bonaire 2009. He met a few euros during his sty that told him stories about how they traveled for months at a time. He was so inspired within a month of returning to home him and his girlfriend packed a Hyundai and road tripped it from long island,ny to Hood River,oregon. This being one of the windiest places on the planet he spent 6 months there. Working part time jobs to get by, focusing on windsurfing, kayaking,snowboarding and traveling. Here's how it went.
"We drove throughout the state, which is filled with mountains, deserts, rain forests, lakes, and rivers."
In September, instead of returning to New York, we went to central California (another windsurfing hotbed) where Amy was offered a contract in her field of marine biology. From there found a whole new range of places to travel to, I even made a trip to Mexico where I scored some epic waves.
There were some set backs along the way, we got caught in a sudden white out blizzard while driving through Wyoming, on our way cross country, with no towns within 50 miles. My car was totalled in Oregon by a drunk driver, I was unemployed for 5 months (which held back our travels a bit) and then I was badly hurt in Mexico with the closest hospital being 6 hours away.
Things go wrong, you just have to deal with I guess. In the case where my car was totalled, I actually got a nice insurance check which I used to buy the van that became my hotel on wheels and helped Amy and I make some weekend trips that we wouldn't have done otherwise. I gutted it and now I can drive just about anywhere I want and sleep in the back.
We went to so many new places in the last year; drove cross country after Bonaire, went to Portland, the Columbia River Gorge, the Oregon Coast, Crater Lake, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, San Francsisco, San Diego, Baja, Santa Cruz, Ano Nuevo and more.
Currently I'm in a town called Lodi (the same one in the CCR song.) It's close to a place called Rio Vista, which this time of year is usually windy every day. Around Mid June I'm going back to the Oregon Coast for a windsurfing contest, and after that I'd like to head back to Portland and the Gorge. There's so much to do that even living there for 6 months wasn't enough time to do it all. In the fall I was going to do the Gulf, but with the Oil spill I might have to wait a bit. I'm definately going to visit Cape Hatteras at some point before winter sets in. "
"Who knows, I've never really planned anything out more than a month in advance, I've just been going with the flow the last year and a half, and it's been working out great."
"You can check him and his adventures out at his blog:http://windchachi.blogspot.com/ were he gives you the scoop on windsurfing and good life all in one.Good Luck Chachi and keep on making your dreams a reality!