- Family Travel: French Alps - relaxing week in the snow, hot tub and sauna with Vivynne, Tony, Ariana and Max; Switzerland - quick stops at Jim and Nina’s in Geneva and Bill and Nina’s in Lucerne; Scotland - Fringe Festival, Edinburgh Red Dress Hash, Eurohash Cruise exceeded all expectations, dancing for hours, Ashlynn officially become a Ballbreaker, celebrating Veronica’s birthday in Glasgow
- Jimmy/Melissa/Veronica Travel: England - Veronica’s graduation at University of East Anglia, exploring her new city of Exeter, seeing Hamilton in London
- Melissa/Ashlynn Travel: Seoul - cocktails at the tallest building in Korea, holding a raccoon at a raccoon cafe; Melbourne - Penguin Parades, cheap sushi, feeding kangaroos; Sydney - Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk, hashing together twice, more sushi
- Jimmy/Melissa Travel: Manhattan - staying on Times Square; Belgium - Belgian Nash Hash and incredible Zombie Hash in Charleroi; Hannover - meeting up with Melissa and Pieter at German Nash Hash; London - Camilla’s 50th, trekking three days of the Thames Path with Carlin and Kent, Halloween Hash; Slovakia - exploring Banska Bystrica; Stockholm - staying in a hostel on an old boat, hashing
- Jimmy Travel: England - solo running trip in the Lakes District; US - meeting up with various Hash friends while on business trips in California and DC
- Melissa Travel: California - one visit to family on my own and another with Jimmy along for a few days, slumber parties with my sisters; Canberra - visiting Jane, seeing wild kangaroos, hiking, biking and snorkeling; Boston - Urban Art Museum, JFK Library and MIT with Sally, steamed lobster at the Boston Hash
- Veronica Travel: UK - camping in Lakes District and Devon, visiting David in Aberdeen and Ryan and Charlotte in Hastings, exploring Cornwall along the southwest coastal path, Sunburn Beach Ultimate in Bournemouth, exploring Bristol and Exmouth with Brett
- Ashlynn Travel: Cyprus - flown in for an editorial and fashion show; Seoul - hiking, hanging out at 6th Floor, DJing in front of friends, video shoot with friends for favorite streetwear company; Bali - scuba diving; Sydney - Manly, camping with new friends Soso and Riahn, half marathon, DJ course, photo shoots on the beach; Hong Kong - running into and hanging out with old BSN friends; Berlin - visiting Soso and going to MELT Festival together; Croatia - Dimensions Festival with Sophie; England - visiting Veronica in Norwich, London and Exeter, and Sophie in London; Cairns - Tropic Days Hostel, camping, volunteering at Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre
- Proud Parents: watching Veronica graduate with a First from UEA; so happy that both girls have embraced being hashers and have hashed on their own
- Jimmy: proud of haring Gay Pride in Amsterdam and Zombie Hash, which ended in a cooling tower in Charleroi, Belgium and was the perfect way to celebrate 30 years of hashing (and has since been named the Best Trail of 2019 for BMPH3); still running at the front of the pack
- Melissa: finally seeing Carlin play the harp in a concert, hashing in nine countries, discovering my superpower—controlling the weather while hashing, and establishing date nights with Sally and John
- Veronica: achieving a First at UEA, Grad Ball with UEA friends, third place win at Women’s Indoor Nationals, learning to fly a drone and making some kick ass videos, experimenting further with self-portraiture, internship at Rubies in the Rubble in London and staying with Camilla and Ariana, volunteering at Food Cycle and at organic farms in Cornwall and Suffolk, starting aerial classes and taking a flying trapeze class, cooking for participants at Extinction Rebellion protest in London, successfully avoiding flying, starting a Master’s in Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture at Exeter, joining Expedition Society, first American boyfriend and introducing him to the Hash, meeting new vegan friends through Instagram, uni field trips to farms, veg boxes
- Ashlynn: embracing traveling alone as a backpacker, getting hired as a bartender and waitress on a tropical island paradise in the Great Barrier Reef, first boyfriend, Dekmantel with Sarah, ADE in Amsterdam, upgraded DJ deck
- Visitors: None of our visitors stayed for long, but we were happy to host Phil, Jim, Soso, and Stacie
Happy Hanukkah! Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!
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