How come nobody has ever caught an West-ward wind and traveled REALLY REALLY far in a Hot air balloon?
I'm not a "shill", but I can answer this by looking up a few things. You can, too, if you try.
Defining what you mean by "really, really far" would be helpful. FAI (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) lists distance records for "Hot Air" balloons at
http://www.fai.org/record-ballooning with multiple thoushands of km. Search on one of the larger Subclass 'AX' and 'Distance' as Search Type in their Ballooning Records search page above. They also provide altitude, duration, and fastest around the world records. No AX (Hot Air) around the world records were returned in the larger sizes - there probably are none at all.
Much greater distances are reported for some other of the Subclasses, including distances greater than the circumference of the Earth. I suspect that hot air balloons have more limited capabilities since they have to carry fuel to heat the air, and hot air probably has significantly less buoyancy than Helium, which limits the payload, which limits endurance. I don't know a lot about it, though, but this seems logical.
I don't know if any of these record holders went eastward or westward. Maybe you could inquire with FAI or research it on your own if you actually care.
You seem hung up on the notion that the Earth's atmosphere must be fixed in space while the Earth itself rotates under it, causing thousand-mile-per-hour easterly gales at the equator. This is wrong and has been discussed in numerous other threads already; why start a new one?
[Edit] omitted phrase from final paragraph about the notion being wrong.