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- News – October 2015 (Sodo/Ethiopia, 10/31/2015)
- Website statistics: 'Webalizer' has been shut down in February 2013. 'Google-Analytics' is now the current counter.
- 'Google-Analytics' showed 21'579 pageviews during October. The visitors come from 235 countries!
- ('Google-Analytics': September = 19'829 pageviews / August = 21'308 pageviews)
- 'Logaholic' shows now the following figures in October 2015: 20'037 visits / 89'120 pages
- ('Logaholic' September = 17'623 visits / 81'749 pages; August = 19'154 visits / 87'237 pages)
- 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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- October 10th, 2015: We are invited for lunch at locals. Liliana is going to get her camera out of our car shortly before eating.
- When she is opening the door to the garden, the watchdog sees her and darts immediately to her and bites her into the left leg.
- As on December 14th, 2009, in Tonga a lot of blood is flowing and there is a huge uproar – how did this happen? Besides
- of three more "tamely" dogs there is a creature "trained to attack", which guards the big property. They have been released
- from there day cages to do their "business". Unfortunately neither the host didn't inform us about letting out the dogs nor
- Liliana didn't mention anything about her intention to go to the vehicle. That's the way accidents happen! Result: Immediately
- to the nearby Karen Hospital where the wounds have been cleaned, a tetanus injection and the necessary antibiotics were
- given. Liliana is still treating today the biggest bite injury with antibiotic cream, but it seems to heal. We informed also with
- pictures our "general practitioner" in Kuala Lumpur, who gave us greenlight on October 19th, for our onward journey
- towards Ethiopia. Hence our 31st travel jubilee on October 16th, 2015, felt through like one year ago the 30th anniversary
- of being "on the road" in Angola due to an axle fracture.
- On October 21st, we kicked off and said good bye to Nairobi. Initially we proceeded on the "Trans East-African Highway"
- pretty good. One day later we left definitively the southern hemisphere in Nanyuki while crossing the equator for the 24th
- time by road. We roamed since July 1st, 2014, in this part of the earth. On the more than 300 miles [500km] long stretch
- north of Isiolo there are still about 60 miles [100km] of road construction sites that can nerve quite a lot. Once this part is
- definitively finished – it will take for sure some more years – there will be a huge relieve for the traffic between Kenya and
- Ethiopia (if there is done some maintenance what might be questionable).
- Next "fixpoint" was the border crossing in Moyale: Firstly the Ethiopian Customs doesn't work on a Sunday, thus the Carnet
- could get stamped in only on Monday, although it's possible to enter the country on Sunday. Secondly it wasn't just our
- 516th border crossing within the last 31 years, but we entered also "our new" 183rd country – Ethiopia (182nd was
- Mozambique). Thirdly we changed for the 25th time from the left hand side to the right hand side of the road, whereby we
- drove in 48 countries 134'565 miles [216'562km] on the left side – it was more than the double on the right hand side:
- 309'859 miles [498'670km] in 134 countries.
- After the first night in Ethiopia in Moyale, early morning of October 27th, we discovered unexpectedly in Emil's pillow the
- bullet from the robbery in Nkhotakota/Malawi on July 31st, 2015. Would this projectile not only have grazed Emil but hit
- somewhere – unimaginable.....! The South of Ethiopia is still wild and not so densely populated. We reached quickly
- Yabello, a kind of "tourist pivot". Thus we have seen quite a few short time tourists in tourist vehicles, who are exploring
- everything feasible in the region. Upon their information we turn left towards Konso in the West because the paved Trans
- African Highway, which is leading directly northwards is said to be full of potholes for about 125 miles [200km]. However
- the 60 miles [100km] stretch that we have chosen was also pretty rough and tough. About 20 miles [30km] consist of
- construction sites and the rest of a very rough worn and washed out gravel road. But somewhen tarmac restarts and with it
- also the density of the population: From Konso onwards mostly people, animals (cows, goats, sheep, donkeys) and carts
- are populating the road, as well as a very bad add-on: Children screaming and yelling for money and sweets while they are
- throwing stones at the cars – partly in fairly big groups (dozens) from around 5 to 18 years of age. They are waiting on
- places for white tourists (doesn't matter whether driving in an own car or in a local vehicle with a driver), where the vehicle's
- speed has to be reduced due to obstacles. Woe to the one who experiences at such a place a breakdown!
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- We are now agog whether the "children situation" towards the North and East is developing more positively. If not we are
- shortening our journey through the beautiful and usually predominantly friendly country. Any further inconveniences can be
- overcome without problems. But getting stones flung at the head (Emil underwent this experience already), every mile is
- becoming like running respectively driving the gauntlet, despite of possibly broken windows and other damages.
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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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