Hot News - July 2006 (Miri/Sarawak / Malaysia, July 9th, 2006)
- Website statistics: In June we were able to welcome on our website 31'602 visitors
- from ??? different countries* who did 635'593 hits.
- (May = 35'066 visitors - ??? countries* - 719'766 (= record) hits)
- (*= the country counter, which stopped working March 23rd, could still not be repaired
- by the ISP Goldnet - usually there were monthly between 100 and 118 countries!)
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- Here in Miri, in the East Malaysian province of Sarawak on the island of Borneo, the "overhaul machinery"
- starts slowly to work. Hence our "little house", i.e. the body of our LandCruiser, has been stripped thoroughly
- exposing its old age of nearly 25 years. With some pictures on our website, we show the repair's progress
- under "All-round rejuvenation". Now it's also the engine's turn. On the contrary to the bad rust condition of the
- body, the motor presents itself in a surprisingly good shape despite its 382'000 sometimes difficult miles driven
- on all the continents. It's planned that by the end of July our Toyota will be back on the road - may be we have
- to add some additional days. Simultaneously we are going rigorously through all our accumulated stuff sorting it
- out and keeping only what we really need. It's amazing what has been collected during all the 22 years and it's
- even more striking what can be stowed in such a relatively small vehicle.
- But it's also we who are undergoing some treatment - exactly at the dentist. It's time to have checked and
- repaired our teeth, neglected already too long over the years. During the first part of
the "renovation
- a room in a small guesthouse, the TreeTops Lodge, situated beautifully on the jungle's edge, approximately
- 12 miles South of Miri. On August 1st, we shall move to our friend's house in the Miri-Shell-Camp, where we
- are fortunate to do 'house-sitting' during their month's vacation to England.
- Still no relevant news yet regarding the car entry permits from the Philippines and Indonesia - like already two
- months ago. Although the Department of Tourism of the Philippines contacted us recently again, the final
- breakthrough didn't happen (yet).
New Reports/Pictures
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| + our LandCruiser on a "Rejuvenation Cure" | in Miri/Sarawak - the East Malaysian province on Borneo |
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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. 84 - April 97) |
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