Because I'm Going to Ecuador, That's Why

OMG, WTF has been up with Hybrid Sessions lately?!? Why hasen't the site been updated in like a month?? Questions I'm sure the millions of HS fanatics have been asking themselves lately... (By millions I mean <25) href="http://agoodreed.com/wetzler-weekly-waveboarding/">Wave Boarding adventure to South America, more specifically the country of Ecuador tomorrow and I've been so busy I haven't really had the time to keep your shred fix up to date. Fuck me, right? Here's a little rundown of the last month and a half-ish's events:

Sometime in early April I ran out of money and had to leave the mountains of Colorado and my extraordinary shred-bum life style and journey back to the land of my birth, The Biggest Little City in the World, Reno, Nevada. I was definitely super bummed to leave Summit County, especially since Mother Nature decided she wanted to puke snow form the sky in large volumes for about 3 weeks straight, right when I was leaving. Sweet. Powder days in April? Yeah, those fucking suck. I'm way glad I missed out on that....................

On the drive home, some where in Utah I believe, I saw a VW bus exponentially cooler than mine, The Greatful Dead Mobile.

This thing was so rad. There was a painfully obvious hippie couple piloting this exquisite machine and I made sure to pay tribute by throwing up a peace sign as I drove by. Another awesome story from my road trip, I stopped at a truck stop in some small, shitty town in eastern Utah to get some gas and went inside to use the bathroom as the X-Terra/my apartment was fueling. As soon as I opened the door I was warmly greeted by some dude snorting a HUGE line of some white substance (most likely cocaine...Or maybe Sweet n' Low) off the bathroom sink. I'm talking a good 3 seconds of nostril inhalation, taking it straight to the dome. I started laughing and the dude quickly hurried out. Now, I'm no sanitation expert, but I have to assume a piece of shit truck stop bathroom sink is not the best place to be snorting lines... hilarious none the less.

I had the X packed to maximum capacity with a large majority of my shit, finally getting it out of the numerous buddies' houses where it was stored. Even the passenger seat was packed full...

Since I had had no room inside the car, I had to bungee my Tupperware snowboard gear bin and lash my bike and shred stick to the top of the whip. Good thing the rope I had was 500 feet long, shit.

Since my bank account was hurting big time and I wasn't eligible for a federal government bailout , I had to get right to work when I arrived home in order to fund my Ecuadorian Expedition. My pops has a nice little custom cabinet business and we got right down to creating masterpieces quite similar to this. Little did I know though that creating custom cabinetry gems is all I would be doing. We had a particular entertainment center that had to be finished by a certain date so for about 2 weeks we worked 12-15 hours a day to finish this beast, including weekends. So long story short, pretty much all I've been doing is working since I've been home, as seen in this pie chart break down:

I had all these awesome ideas for shit to write about and this grand plan to write a bunch of posts and future date them so they would post while I was in Ecuador, but as it turns out, updating my blog is the last thing I want to do after working for 12 hours. And when I did have some free time, I usually just jammed some tasty grooves on my guitar. Although, I do have quite the laundry list now of post ideas for when I get back, since one has ample time to think whilst sanding wood for hours at a time. So stay tuned for those... Hopefully I don't sabotage my limited audience while I'm on hiatus.

Pretty much the best thing I've done here in Reno was see Heartless Bastards play live music. Holly shit they are incredible. If you haven't heard of them I demand you click their link and give em a listen, and then buy their albums.

Ok, so now on to my 2 month (minimum) surf trip through South America! Hybrid Sessions is taking over the world basically. Fellow voyager JB and I are heading to Ecuador in search of the perfect wave. We will be setting up camp in Montañita, a super rad little beach town, and surfing from sun up to sun down. After we get the feel for things we will then venture out and go where ever the wind takes us, back packs and surfboards in hand, vagabonding up and down the South Pacific Coast. Our main goal for this trip (aside from riding waves of course) is to "fall off the grid" so to speak and totally immerse ourselves in the Ecuadorian culture. We do not want to be the sterotypical tourists, we want to live how they live and do what they do. We are going to be all but free from the burdens of modern technology, bringing only a camera to document our adventures. There will of course be emails sent to family and friends from internet cafés for the sake of them knowing we're still alive, but that's the extent of it. No cell phones or laptops, just the ocean and an open mind. That's really what I'm looking forward to the most...

Like I said we will be there for about 2 months, but will most likely be extending our stay. I am stoked out of my mind for this trip.

This will undoubtedly be me in 2 weeks:

Hahahahaha! I wish. I'll definitely be getting my shred on though...

And this doesn't look so bad right?

If anyone out there has been to Ecuador or Peru and know of any good surf spots, or just anything awesome in general, please email and let me know, it would be greatly appreciated!!

Hybridsessions1@gmail.com

Well, that's what going on in the HS world. We'll see how things go and I might try to post up some photos and video of the trip. Who knows though... I hope everyone has a great summer, get out there and skate, and until next time... Peace I'm outa here! Dig it.