This is the beginning of our recent trip to New Hampshire. We decided to take the Orient Point Ferry to New London so we could save some time driving north from Long Island. It was nice driving through the countryside of eastern and northern Long Island. We hope to visit some of the many wineries out there soon. It was all of our first visit to “the other” tip/end of Long Island. Our trip started out normally. We left...

We stayed in Jakarta for one day. I wanted to stay for at least 2 days so we could buy our plane tickets to New York and make some sort of plan to buy a blood glucose measuring machine and accessories for AC’s diabetic mother. Her family arrived unannounced the day after we arrived, pressuring us to get out of Jakarta and off to Indramayu. I did manage to speak to a nurse in the evening and ask him about getting some blood test...

We arrived in Jakarta International Airport in the afternoon. Aliya was one month shy of 2 years old and handled the flight very well. She was very cranky waiting in the line at customs and cried a lot there. Even though her mother is Indonesian, the Indonesian government will not allow Aliya to have an Indonesian passport because I am an American. It’s a shame that she will always be considered an outsider in her mothers home...

We’d been planning our trip to Indonesia for some time and all of the events were coming quickly together toward the end of September, 2008.  My wife’s US visa was set after over a year of trips to the pseudo American embassies (the American Institute in Taiwan) in Kaohsiung and Taipei.    My daughter was also nearly 2 years old, which was a concern because 2 year olds fly for adult fair and children less than 2 get a...

We’ve been enjoying ourselves this summer, and this trip fishing at Captree State Park was no exception.  We went on the 4PM – 8PM fluke fishing boat and managed to catch some nice fish.  The bad part of it was none of the fluke measured greater than 20 inches so we had to throw them all back.  Luckily Eddie managed to get a passing cocktail blue fish so we had something to bring home besides a few crabs that were caught in...

I went out for a few hours on my friends new boat tonight. We cruised around Northport Bay and caught a gorgeous sunset.