News – February 2007 (Denpasar/Bali / Indonesia, February 28, 2007)
- Website statistics: In January, we were able to welcome on our website 34'745 visitors who did 765'296 (= record) hits.
- (December = 31'691 visitors – ??? countries* – 633'408 hits)
- Record days since 12/17/1998 - the birthday of our website: 3/20/2006, 1'474 visitors; 8/29/2006, 47'038 hits
- (*= the country counter, which stopped working March 23, 2006, has still not been repaired by the
- ISP Goldnet - frustrating! - usually there were monthly between 100 and 118 different countries!)
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- This time we are a little bit late with the news. Although we mentioned in our last edition on January 18th, that we
- would leave Bali soon, this shouldn't happen. Due to "lucky circumstances" we got the joyful opportunity to pamper
- ourselves a little here. Actually, we intended to head East on February 6th already, when we were able to collect our
- second visa extension at the immigration authorities.
- But it wasn't only "enjoyment". We also used the "break" for inquiries. I.e. we tried to work out when and to what
- conditions the meanwhile world-renowned "ill-famed" Indonesian ferries sail from one to the other island, how it
- looks with the car's entry into Timor Leste – our 156th country, whether the shut down freighter between
- Northeastern Sulawesi to Mindanao in the Philippines resumes its service, and if the planned continuation to Papua
- New Guinea is feasible at all with our financial means.
- However, our time of relaxing has also its back side, because Timor Leste (the formerly East-Timor) sealed
- yesterday its overland border with Indonesia due to violence and unrest. But this can be looked at it also the other
- way round: Would we have continued as scheduled at the begin of February, we would have reached East Timor
- now, and the return to Indonesia would have become impossible at a prolonged closure, thus forcing us to ship the
- only way out – to Australia. But we don't want to go there, because we visited "Down Under" already in 1993.
- Leisure time is running out definitively – i.e. we'll be soon "back on the road". Lombok - Sumbawa - Flores will be
- our next island destinations (as long as the ships don't sink or burn out).
- Therefore, please check from time to time the progress of our "Indonesia-Trip" on our pictured site!
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 3rd part | Lombok, Sumabawa, Flores – April 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 2nd part | Bali – Jan.-March 2007 |
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| + our Indonesia Trip, 1st part | Sumatra, Java – Dec. 2006 |
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| + our Borneo Trip | Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah, Kalimantan – Sept.-Nov. 2006 |
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| + our LandCruiser on a "Rejuvenation Cure" | in Miri/Sarawak - the East Malaysian province on Borneo June-Aug. 2006 |
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| + added from a earlier visit to the USA: | Las Vegas (Millennium change) |
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| + added from our Arabian Peninsula round trip: | Pictures from Yemen (May-June 1996) |
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| + Flashbacks of our Worldrecordtour: | Pictures from "all the continents" (Oct. 1984 - April 1997) |
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