Harriers

So I must mention the Hash House Harriers now. It's a group that's active in every major city on the globe. They get together and go on a treasure hunt/jog/walk once a week, then they have dinner and drink a bunchof beer. It's a an excellent networking forum. I've met a bunch of people, Lao and foreign, all of them interesting. And it's exercise. And it's fun. Except they make you sit in a bucket of ice cubes from time to time. But if any of you are in Asia at any point, they're everywhere. I think even in New York. You can make a lot of contacts, for whatever your purposes are. They suit mine fine. I met the woman with the interesting family history there, and an old English geezer who's been here since 1962, and a US Navy guy who's working on finding the remains of the MIA plane-got-shot-down guys. All fun and useful folks. So check out the Hash House Harriers.

The name comes from the original run back in 1938 in Malaysia, where they gathered at a greasy spoon, otherwise known as a "Hash house". Nothing to do with THC.