Hot News - May 2005 (May 8, 2005)
- Website statistics: In April we were able to welcome on our website 18'392 visitors
- from 104 different countries who did 369'774 hits
- (March = 23'420 visitors - 111 countries - 371'793 hits)
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- The water pump, radiator and differential are repaired, the mattress and car seats got new covers,
- the inside of the car is clean from all the mess of a mouse, which joined us as stowaway in Sint
- Maarten and left here in Guyana, so we are ready to embark for new adventures, but not towards
- Venezuela due to the fact that Toyota de Venezuela withdrew their support for an engine overhaul
- a couple of days ago for no reason and with no plausible comment. Soon there will be a detailed
- report about it in “Ups and downs with: TOYOTA”. Taking into consideration that from Sint
- Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles we chose to ship to Venezuela via Guyana only because of this
- assistance, we are, of course, deeply disappointed. Nevertheless, our journey around the world
- goes on, with the good old engine close to 600’000 km on the odometer, with a body which
- urgently needs attention and a big portion of (risky?) optimism!
We took the opportunity of our extented stay to recover firstly the data from our computer crash - and to put secondly additional reports (Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada, St. Vincent, Las Vegas)
- and pictures (Flashbacks of our World Trip, Yemen) online in the internet. One day, we had the
- unexpected visit of traveler fellow: Gunilla and Wilfried Gosslau with their MAN! Coming from
- Venezuela and on their way through the three Guyana’s towards Belem in Northeastern Brazil, they
- already heard in Boa Vista that we got stuck here in Georgetown. For us, it was a lovely change.
- Not only had we the chance to admire for the first time such a luxury motor home, but also to talk –
- since August 2001 (!) – to same minded people and exchange experiences and information. To
- have been “off-the-beaten-track” since April 1995, which of course was very challenging,
- exciting and rewarding, contacts with other car travelers went missing.
April 24, 2005: Under Toyota Encounters you will find in several continuations the story of our- “relationship” with Toyota in general. It started buying our LandCruiser FJ60 in May 1982 and is
- still continuing. Not only our 23-year old car went through many adventures in its
- “375’000-miles-career” as “the most traveled vehicle” through 150 different countries, but also we
- had amazing experiences with its “creator”, the Japanese Toyota Motor Corporation and their
- worldwide distributors. We want to record here these ups and downs, believing that many interested
- people will get so astonished to ask: “Is this really possible?”
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- On October 18th, 2004, we celebrated our 20th anniversary "on the road" in
- St. Martin/St. Maarten in the Caribbean, after having driven through 150 countries.
- Please visit BBC Caribbean's Website and read our story of 31.7.04
- Are you interested into the LandCruiser History, prepared by Toyota Motor Sales USA?
- (after some loading-time please klick "IN LEGEND" and afterwards "HAIR TO MAGELLAN"
- - and you will see that we already belong to it too!)
Reports
SOUTH AMERICA:
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| + added from our Carribean "cruise": | St. Vincent & die Grenadinen (Sept. 2003) |
| + added from our Carribean "cruise": | Grenada (Aug. 2003) |
| + new added from our Carribean "cruise": | Trinidad & Tobago (June - July 2003) |
| + added from a earlier visit to the USA: | Las Vegas (Millennium change) |
| + added from our Arabian Peninsula round trip: | Pictures from Yemen (May-June 1996) |
| + new Flashbacks of our Worldrecordtour: | Pictures from "all the continents" (Oct. 84 - April 97) |
| + new Follow-ups about Toyota-Experiences: | Encounters resp. "Ups + Downs" with Toyota Companies since 1982 |
- External links in German only to www.ernstmaissen.ch:
Suriname-French Guiana (March - May 2003)
