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News – February 2010 (Singapore, February 28, 2010)
- Website statistics: In January we were able to welcome on our website 44'697 visitors who did 1'598'449 hits.
- (December = 38'469 visitors – 1'308'768 Hits / November = 40'458 visitors – 1'429'382 Hits)
- The visitors are coming from about 170 different countries!
- Record day since 12/17/1998 = the birthday of our website: on 11/5/2007 = 13'407 visitors and 787'456 hits
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- Emil lies in bed with bronchitis in a hotel in Singapore and feels pretty lousy. But what happened until this occurred?
- What has taken place until January 28th, 2010, can be read in our last "News Dec. 2009/Jan. 2010". Liliana resumed the nurture
- of her leg's wound one day after our arrival on January 22nd, in Malaysia at an Indian doctor in Kuala Lumpur. It was battered
- not only due the dog's bite on December 14th, in Tonga, but even more due to the subsequent negligent treatment at the Vaiola
- hospital. During the following two weeks, the Indian doctor took care of the wound nearly on a daily basis, which therefore –
- and certainly also thanks to the antibiotics – showed a noticeable healing. Because we were dealing already with the medics, we
- decided to go ahead with more personal "maintenance" – as none of us is getting any younger. Amongst other things, Emil had to
- care about his gum problems that causes him worries since more than a year. Unfortunately, no appointments were anymore
- available as the Chinese New Year was around the corner. Hence up to Thailand, where it's said that the dentists are even
- cheaper. But despite of the fact that also there the approaching holidays paralyzed the daily routine, we didn't find anybody we
- had confidence. We checked frustrated the internet for flights to Singapore and were fully surprised to find seats at Singapore
- Airlines at a remarkable low priced fare. Simultaneously, the container with our car reached Kaohsiung in Taiwan where it was
- unloaded onto another vessel bound for Port Klang in Malaysia.
- Likewise we got an appointment at a lady dentist in Singapore, who was recommended to us. Barely arrived, Emil found himself
- trapped in the famous dentist's chair and "surgery" started: Called 'root planing', which is pretty painful and bloody. It's removing
- tartar that advanced already to gum disease due to self-neglect. Two days later, Emil caught once more a dreadful bronchitis –
- presumably caused by the extreme undercooling with air-conditioners, combined with the pollution in Asia's mega cities and the
- reduced state of health as a result of the two-day oral surgery. Our LandCruiser however reached on February 22nd, its final
- destination at Belawan near Medan on the Indonesian island of Sumatra – actually more than a week earlier than expected. The
- Government of Papua New Guinea allowed us to enter "our" 167th country through its "backdoor", i.e. driving overland from
- Jayapura in Indonesian (West) Papua to Vanimo in PNG's Sandaun province. Apparently it will be the first vehicle to cross the
- only land border between Asia and the Pacific – Return to Paradise?
- Hence we likely shall start on March 8th, for the second time to cross Indonesia. While we had to return from Eastern Sumatra to
- Jakarta during our first visit at the end of 2006 due to a broken differential, we hope now to discover the whole huge island.
- Traversing Java will be next, before sailing by ferry from Surabaya in the East to Makassar in South Sulawesi. There will be
- "virgin soil" for us from Central Sulawesi onwards: First the North of the island and afterwards the Moluccas, from where we
- have to reach somehow (West) Papua.
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| The visit of 13 Pacific Islands with and 1 without our LandCruiser | Pacific February 2008-January 2010 |
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| The visit of 13 Caribbean Islands with our LandCruiser | Caribbean June 2003-Dec. 2004 |
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| + added from the United Arab Emirates: | Fairytale Wedding in Dubai (March 1999) |
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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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