tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31365532011-11-29T16:32:23.753-05:00Hani's Annual New Year's Letters to friendsMielehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13661371269745214393noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3136553.post-58509629763385778912011-01-23T22:37:00.004-05:002011-01-23T23:01:26.229-05:002011-01-23T23:01:26.229-05:00

A long, long year. Details to come.From New York Cityto Paris, France

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2009 started with Diving in Dahab and ended at a New Year's celebration in NYC.

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2008 ranks as one of the BEST YEARS EVER. Mostly because I got to go to a GELATO CONVENTION and traveled far and wide to see the best friends on earth.More to come for my year between Switzerland and Egypt.Eye candy from the Gelato Conference, SIGEP:

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In between the Hamptons with Teresa and Zwingen, Switzerland with the Lienhards, I was party to an NYPD police chase, a semi-emergency flight landing (a goose went through our right engine), I moved into a new apartment, started a second company, travelled 30,000 miles, attended two weddings (three if you count the one I crashed) and two funerals, enjoyed a new nephew, food, music, and art, and

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All right, all right... the lunar new year has passed me by, but I'll get 30,000 miles & 2007 details up soon. In the meantime, enjoy the photo sets.The best thing that happened to our family this year was my little nephew:

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My life in pictures.Try as I might, I can’t seem to stay in one place for more than a few weeks so I roamed about some 35,000 miles of our planet last year.La bella vita2006 started with a trip to Waimea Canyon and watching the whales play from our lenai in Kapa’a on the island of Kauai. I pit stopped in Washington D.C. to trade in surf shorts for winter layers before I settled into my new home

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I TRIED TO DRAW THE LINES on a map of the U.S. to show where I traveled this year. It began to look like a three year old was given a crayon and a newly painted white wall. Like past years, I ate well and lived well. I covered over 30,000 miles, slept in twelve states, and did my favorite thing – I visited my family and friends. But this year was unusual: I was in a funk. 2005 was remarkable

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Na Pali coast on Kauai island, Hawaii.Check back in a few weeks, where I'll be writing from my new home in Italia.

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my old office and my new office On my way from Rome to Saigon this past year, I left my beloved New York City and west village apartment on the best food street in Manhattan for a long journey. Every week somebody asks me questions like where have I moved, did I move to Vietnam or have I moved to California? Move is a four-letter word. Please don't make me do it.You could say I'm still a New

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2002 is a difficult year to top... so I never did write my 2003 annual letter. While not as lively as years past (see the others below), here it is in brief:My year began from the quiet warmth of sunny Santa Monica, California.I hit thirty in Italy and went back for bubbly for the new anno. Though not training for another AIDS Ride (yeah, I'm really retired), I climbed to the top of the leaning

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My 2002 started in the summer sun of Sydney and ended in the winter warmth of Santa Monica. I begin with Kim with a bang on the plaza of the Sydney Opera House, followed with a speed-tasting of six wineries in Hunter Valley -- one of Australia's oldest viticulture areas, and continue up the Australian coast while navigating on the left side of the road, stopping on the way to hike up Hawkes

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I rang in the new millennium with Lisa on the Strand in London only to end it in Sydney down under with Kim with perhaps the world's most spectacular fireworks show. In between, I lived mostly in Vietnam with a six week hiatus spent in New York, Washington DC, and Santa Monica. I also managed to squeeze a day in to explore Bangkok.In Vietnam I spent a lot of time riding (and occasionally driving)

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My last year of the 20th century began at the top of the Funiculaire in Montreal and ended at Simpson's in the Strand in London. I spent two weeks in Alaska, left New York in September, lived two and a half months in Atlanta playing with the Epstein school's wonderful 3-year old class, and prepared for my move to Vietnam to be closer to my 92-year old grammy.I enjoyed a year full of the arts,

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(i.e. why you haven't heard from me sooner) Most significantly this year, I left my job at the airline, considered a move to southern California, got a job in New York instead, and moved to a pretty cool city to work for some funny Italian guys at a great design firm. Being surrounded by the arts, I heard the New York Philharmonic in Central Park while picnicking, and later, their premiere of

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