Hot News - August 2006 (Miri/Sarawak / Malaysia, Aug. 2, 2006)
- Website statistics: In July we were able to welcome on our website 31'435 visitors who did 683'902 hits.
- (June = 31'602 visitors - ??? countries* - 635'593 hits)
- On July 14, 2006, we had with 30'314 hits the record day since 12/17/1998, the birthday of our website.
- (*= the country counter, which stopped working March 23, 2006, has still not been repaired by the
- ISP Goldnet - usually there were monthly between 100 and 118 different countries!)
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- According to our last "Hot News" of July 9th, it was planned that our LandCruiser will be back on the road by
- the end of July. This was too much wishful thinking as we had to change now the deadline to August 26th!
- Though the bodywork isn't finished yet, we had big problems finding the fitting pistons and piston rings. So the
- local Toyota dealer informed us at the beginning of July that the required spare parts were simply not anymore
- available and we would have therefore to search on the graymarket. Because we mistrust the
- "non-OEM-products" (= not genuine Toyota), we started to email to all our visited Toyota distributors around
- the world, asking whether, by chance, they might still have them on stock. Thus Toyota Gibraltar - which sells
- 4x4-vehicles for aid agencies worldwide (even the trusty HZJ78) -, notified us about the reply from 'Toyota
- Parts Central Europe' that our so desperately needed parts are still on stock in Japan! Hence its arrival is now
- promised for August 14th, when finally the cylinder block can get skimmed. As soon as we have more new
- interesting pictures from the upcoming repairs, we shall add them to our "All-round rejuvenation" website.
- Our "housesitting-time" in the home of our friends in the Miri-Shell-Camp has started. Although Sarawak is
- (still) regarded as pretty safe, many of the expats feel more comfortable if somebody they know is living in the
- house during their holidays - also for watering the many orchids and plants. Our dentist's treatment is still in
- progress, with more and more "bridges and crowns" being built in. Everything needs its time on the Island of
- Borneo.
- Because it's a fact that in this region everything is lingering "a bit", even after three months the car entry permits
- for the Philippines and Indonesia are not in our hands yet. But there are good news now from the Philippines
- that the papers are being processed. Also Indonesia shows some positive development. According to a recent
- email from the Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Tourism, something is happening there too. It seems to be
- really just a matter of time!
New Reports/Pictures
- SOUTHEASTASIA: mouse over picture shows comments
- click a picture to see details
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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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