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Article: WIND BRINGS CROWDS TO TOWN.(TRAVEL)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 15, 2003
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Byline: TERRENCE PETTY Associated Press
HOOD RIVER, Ore. -- They are returning now, the wind worshipers who swarm into this scenic Columbia River town every year from all corners of the world to squirm into their wetsuits, hop onto their windsurfing boards and go tearing across the whitecaps at 30 mph and more.
Some will stay the weekend. Some will stay the summer. Others may stay forever. There are plenty who do.
Sitting on a bench in front of a popular downtown coffee shop is local windsurfer Bart Vervloet, a 43-year-old who came here nearly two decades ago in search of the perfect wind, found it, and made Hood River his home.
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