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- News – August/September 2014 (Lubango/Angola, 10/2/2014)
- Website statistics: 'Webalizer' has been shut down definitively in February 2013. 'Logaholic' is the current counter.
- 'Logaholic' shows now the following figures in July 2014: 18'659 visits / 69'839 pages
- 'Google-Analytics' showed 22'053 pageviews during July. The visitors come from ~228 countries!
- ('Logaholic' June = 18'607 visits / 66'806 pages; May = 21'304 visits / 78'863 pages)
- ('Google-Analytics': June = 22'426 pageviews / May = 25'239 pageviews)
- Record day since 12/17/1998 = the birthday of our website: on 11/5/2007 = 13'407 visitors and 787'456 hits ('Webalizer')
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- Our last 'News' of June 30th, came still from Bangkok/Thailand where we put in a stopover for 5 days on the way from Kuala
- Lumpur/Malaysia via Doha/Qatar, Johannesburg/South Africa to Windhoek in Namibia. During the 19 hours of flying altogether
- we were able to gather the following experiences: We flew from Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok with the new low-cost carrier
- Malindo Air (Boeing 737-900), an offshoot of the Indonesian Lion Air and potential competition to Air Asia. By all means it
- was more favorable and offered some "freebies", like 20 kg (44 lb) free luggage and a snack. Departing Bangkok it was once
- more Qatar Airways, known by its "more or lesser" full service; initially with the "not so famous" Boeing 777-200 – relatively
- comfortable until Doha, and afterwards with the very uncomfortable Dreamline Boeing 787-8 to Johannesburg – uncomfortable
- because it was jam-packed and also due to its tight seating, both in width and length. At the new Doha airport we were able to
- doze for a few hours on the freely provided reclining seats. The last flight from Johannesburg to Windhoek happened in an
- Airbus 319-100 of South African Airways: The most pleasant – but unfortunately the shortest – regarding service and space.
- As of now there's an end of flying, as we were able to get after exactly 80 days on July 17th, in Walvis Bay on Namibia's coast
- our LandCruiser, which was arriving from Cape Verde [Maersk-Line needed now (2014) for the 3'820 miles long beeline the
- same time as Jules Verne required already 1873 in his novel "Around the world in 80 days" (= 26'541 miles)]. Regarding the
- customs procedures the release of the car was a breeze, though the unloading cost us a hefty US$ 1'060.
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- Currently we are busy to do some smaller excursions in the region. Secondly we have to neaten the interior and the roof rack
- of the Toyota, and last but not least to settle some accumulated repair and maintenance works – besides feeding the website
- and replying to emails. In another two-three days it will be time for "On the African roads again!
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| The visit of 6 countries with and 1 island without our LandCruiser | Middle East | |
| The visit of 10 countries with and 1 without our LandCruiser | Southeast Asia | |
| The visit of 4 countries with and 1 islandl without our LandCruiser | Indian Ocean | |
| The visit of 4 countries with and 1 without our LandCruiser | Far East | |
| The visit of 14 Pacific Islands with and 1 without our LandCruiser | Pacific (Febr. 2008-Jan. 2010 + Aug.-Sept. 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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