Encounter Overland TRANS ASIA EB - People

Ivan Hurst People 16 September 2016 Hits: 1256

The Encounter Overland Asia trip started on 28th September 1978 in Old Brompton Road with me as the leader/driver. As this was my first trip with Encounter Overland I was accompanied by Alan, an experienced and respected EO leader/driver for the first part of the expedition.

The list of Expedition Members is below.

London - Kathmandu 28 September 1978

Passenger List (19)

British (6) Swiss (5) Canadian (4) USA (3) Australian (1)

Keith Colcicott
Peter Downs
William Hiley
Shirley Peta Hough
Crispin Ellison
Leonard Woodman
Rosmarie Bauen
Margrit Calluori
Marlise Graf
Beatrice Hegner
Silvia Kroger
Linda Pelletier
Clarence Pettersen
Judith Pettersen
Lorna Thomas
Gary Fletcher
Richard Hess
Lynn Olson
Lyndall Urquhart

Below are three images found on Facebook and posted by Lorna Thomas, one of the EMs.

I believe the photo above to be of a reunion dinner, which I think was held in London in 2015.

The intrepids

I also found this image entitled Intrepids--London Kathmandu. September 28 1978 with Lorna Thomas, Crispin Ellison, Clarence Pettersen, Keith Coldicott, Lyndall Urquart, Peta Navein. It was posted by Lynn Olson, another one of the EMs.

Change of host Sept 2023

In the begining of August 2023 I transfered my ivanhurst.me.uk sites, including this one from 123-reg to IONOS. It was meant to be a simple task. However, that was to to be the case. The reason for the move was primarily the hugh increase in price that 123-reg was applying regarding email boxes. Previously, the upto 500 of the boxes were included in the various hosting packages I had. Now they were going to charge for each mailbox based on size, and as far as I could make out, this was going to cost me nearly £2,000. This was not acceptable, and I did not get satisfactory answers from support. So I turned off all the auto renews and stated to move sites and domains accross to IONOS.

Travel data problems

This is where it starts to get a little technical.

The site is built on a content management system, CMS, using Joomla. Joomla is moving forward and version 3.10.?? is being discontinued. Future developments are for version 4.??

Similarly, PHP 7 is being replaced with PHP 8.

Part of the migration is relatively simple, I have already changed to a new template which works on the new platforms.

However, some of the helper applications, which work within Joomla are not yet ready.

Fabrik is one of those applications, if fact a significant 'Joomla Custom Website Application Builder'.

Site refresh Easter 2021

I decided to give the site a bit of a refresh over Easter 2021 and install a new template and some additional functions. One of the things I didn't like about the old site was the delay in text appearing which probably meant some people left before the content appeared. This has been disabled now.