Asheville, North Carolina

McCormick Field home of the The Asheville Tourists where Leigh Neuage pitched for the South Georgia Waves in 2003 in Asheville, North Carolina, in the South Atlantic League. More on Leigh at http://neuage.org/leigh.htm

The Longest Time and snow in North Carolina

21 December 2009 North North Carolina outside of Asheville county in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains with Narda and Terrell and listening to “The Longest Time” by Billy Joel and driving through the end of three days of driving through snow from New Jersey down through western Maryland and West Virginia and West North Carolina. More clips at http://ournews.mobi/album.htm

Century Inn

Century Inn is at 2175 East National Pike Scenery Hill, PA. We stayed in the ANDREW JACKSON suite, named after the 7th President of the United States who stopped here in 1829 enroute to his first Presidential Inauguration. The food and service and Inn is amazing – read any review on the Internet – they all give it five stars for everything. Expensive but worth it.

Lakewood New jersey

I am doing a tour of places Leigh played baseball in 2003 throughout the South over the next two months – I am taking a road trip to South Carolina in December. This first place is Lakewood New Jersey.

Half-moon Voyage New York City Harbour Quadricentennial

400th anniversary celebrations of the founding of New York
Half-moon Annual Voyage of Discovery with the HalfmoonReplica Ship -Hudson River Valley The original Halfmoon (Halve Maen) was commissioned in 1609 for the Dutch East India Company in hopes to find a passage trade route to the East. The replica Halfmoon was built to honor the Netherlands’ contributions to America.
New Island Festival

Harderwijk The Netherlands

Harderwijk The Netherlands is a village in the Dutch municipality of Opmeer. We spent ten days here and boated a bit on the IJsselmeer what use to be the Zuider Zee shore on the Southern Sea.
A great town to stay in and ride bikes heaps.
We avoided the tourist trap of the Dolfinarium, a marine mammal park
Terrell Neuage and Narda Biemond.
Harderwijk received city rights from Count Otto II of Guelders in 1231

fire at our 15 Second street cottage in Round Lake New York

Our tenant said the dryer was not working so we drove up four hours from Jersey City to our Round Lake cottage. I pushed the button, a spark came out and I walked away then our fire alarms went foul and I went up stairs as it was filling with smoke… Narda rang 911 and the flames got bigger there were a total of 28 fireman and three companies for a little job: Malta, Round Lake, Jonesville Volunteer Fire Department. So write we are Of our we put our tenants into a nice hotel for three nights: two adults and three children. So after running around getting things sorted out we may once again have a nice 1800s Victorian Home to visit when it gets to weird here in Jersey City where they have a water alert before using it is like being back in India

Old Utrecht

Sitting along the Oude Gracht in old Utrecht the Netherlands. Utrecht is located in the eastern end of the Randstad. The Dom tower is in the centre. Video by Terrell Neuage and Narda Biemond Agust …
Sitting along the Oude Gracht in old Utrecht the Netherlands. Utrecht is located in the eastern end of the Randstad. The Dom tower is in the centre. Video by Terrell Neuage and Narda Biemond Agust 2009. http://neuage.org
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Flight Hamburg to Atlanta Georgia

Leaving Germany on Lufthansa flight LH 755 arriving Atlanta and driving in the US of A after weeks in India. Freeways are quite different from the roads in Goa but not as fun. Video by Terrell Neua…
Leaving Germany on Lufthansa flight LH 755 arriving Atlanta and driving in the US of A after weeks in India. Freeways are quite different from the roads in Goa but not as fun. Video by Terrell Neuage and Narda Biemond. http://neuage.org
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Back Home

Sacha asleep in the lounge and so is girl friend Georgia.

What a long trip this has been.

The last time Sacha and I were asleep in the same house in New York was in March of 1992. We were visiting my father and brother in Clifton Park. Mum had died several months earlier and the last time we were together with her was in 1984. It is a long way from Australia so the visits were not frequent. My brother Robert was dying of AIDS. We stayed in his upper east side apartment for a week before going to Clifton Park and staying with my father. He would come to visit us in October of that year, age 87. The boys and I rented a mobile home and with dad in tow we drove around Australia for a few weeks. Those were great times. Leigh was nine years old and talking about pitching for the New York Yankees. Sacha, now asleep in my lounge here on Albermarle Road, Brooklyn, was eleven and as worldly as an eleven year could be. We had already traveled together between Australia and New York a couple of times and we had ‘done’ France, Germany, Hawaii, California and New York along with too many places in Australia.

I just got back last night from Holland. Sacha and Georgia came over from Melbourne to stay at our apartment. I left for Tennessee the day after they got here for new step-son Chris Moreman’s wedding. Then three days later Narda and I were off to Holland for the parent’s 80th birthday celebration. That went for ten-days. If it weren’t for the in-laws there would only be Sacha and I left. Marrying Narda gave me three step-sons and a large family of sisters and parents and lots of relatives in Holland and in Australia. I have my own step-sister and step-brother who I have met once – in Hawaii – but outside of them there is no one left in the States for me.

Since Sacha and I prowled New York back in 1992, my father has died (last year 23 January – three weeks after I started a new teaching job at The Dwight School), Leigh – the tragedy I can not shake – killed himself soon after turning 20 – after achieving his goal to play professional baseball but there was something wrong with him that neither the LA Dodger’s psychiatrist could fix and I did not know about – he went to Sydney then left the world August 16th 2003. Brother Robert died in 1992 soon after our visit.

Now I have three days with Sacha before he and Georgia go to Thailand for a week then back to Melbourne. I get to see Sacha often, we spent a few days together last July and in August in Melbourne and I manage to see him each August since Leigh died but always in Australia. This will probably be our last time together ever in New York or even in the States. Sacha was born in Hawaii and then we moved to Australia soon after. I will see him this coming July-August in Melbourne and again on Christmas Day 2008 as we already have our ticket. It has become easier flying back and forth to the point that I do it about twice a year.

I miss seeing Leigh. I have no idea what the future holds and of course no one really does but as long as I have memory, Sacha’s visit this week to NYC will be one of my favorites. We have gone a long ways since the two boys and I lived together in South Australia (Hackham, Mt. Compass, Victor Harbor, Middleton – we lived in ten houses in ten years). I always thought that by this time I would be watching Leigh playing baseball but that died. I did get my PhD after seven years of too much work and sorrow and Sacha is an happy adult of 27. I have been married for six years and that has been good and has given me a connection to Holland and many other places. But I am still the same person of the 1980s that had great dreams and believed that my two children and I would have an incredible trot on this planet. We were so poor and our life was so rough but there was a good quality and depth to it. I enjoyed living and playing with my children in Australia with the great plan of us all living in the USA one day. Here I am living in NYC and Sacha is visiting. It is as close to my dream of the 1980s that I will ever come to.