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We had 187 flat tires (= every 2'467 miles or 111 hours of driving).
We used 78 tires, 35 batteries, 162 spark plugs, 25 air filters, 60 shock absorbers.
We made 102 oil changes with 61 oil filters and 108 times greasing.

We had to take 299 times a ferry or a freighter to cross a river, lake or the sea.

This was done on 245 ferries, 29 containers, 2 pontoons, 19 roll-on/roll-off-shipments und 4 times by crane.

We changed 26 times each from right hand to left hand traffic and 25 times from the left to the right.

We crossed 20 times the Equator from North to South and 19 times from South to North, then 14 resp. 11 times in the car.
We needed 107 visas, which filled 12 passports (for Russia the passports had to be sent to Switzerland).

The 186 visited countries had 78 different languages and 156 different currencies.
We visited 161 of the total 195 sovereign and 25 of the 76 non-sovereign countries and other territories of the world.
We have been checked 367 times at the totally 530 border crossings..
We traveled in 23 of the total 24 time-zones.

The highest point the car reached was 17'454 ft in Bolivia (Chacaltaya).
The lowest point was in Jordan at -1'280 ft (Dead Sea).

 

We experienced the coldest camping nights on 6/4/1987 at Geiser del Tatio in northeastern Chile: ca. 8½°F [-13°C]

and on 11/1/1999 near Mill City along Route 95 in Nevada/USA: ca. 5°F [-15°C]

Since 1995 we have given 73 TV interviews in 43 different countries.

460 pages (½ in German and ½ in English) can be chosen on our website, where 9'936 different pictures in a small and a large size of our journey can be found.

Since 4/1/2002 – the start of the statistics of emails – we received and sent 30'150 emails, this is monthly 163 av. (Birth day of Hotmail 3/5/1999)

We "shot" about 19'260 slides, 18'660 prints and 83'710 digital pictures, totally = 121'630, that's every 3.8 miles or 10 minutes of driving one photo.

The highest average speed we drove in Belgium (44.7 miles/h), followed by Denmark (38.7 miles/h).
The lowest average speed we drove in the Vatican (6.2 miles/h), followed by Gibraltar (7.0 miles/h).

The most days and miles we spent in the USA (1'818 days = 63'091 miles), followed by Australia (318 days = 24'209 miles).
The fewest miles we drove in the Vatican (1.2 miles), followed by Monaco (12 miles).

Generally, the car was moved on 6 out of 10 days.
In the average we moved to the next place after 3 days of stay.

 

We filled up totally 48'939 US-gallons of gasoline at 2'070 service stations, average 23½ gallons per filling.
The highest paid gasoline price was US$ 10.23 per US-gallon in June 2013 in Turkey, the lowest US$ 0.06½ in May 1995 in Iran.