I still say it's a bad hop that needs to be fixed, sometimes you must contact your host and/or ISP.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=54943
http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/IP/traceroutedoc.php
Edit: One reason I'm so adamant about this is the fact I've had this happen to me in the past where I could not connect to my own darn website go figure and I work for my host, we checked on our end it was actually Time Warner Cable's fault I had to call in and speak to them then they had it fixed while I was on the phone and that was all it took. I also ran a tracert and for me #9 timed out on the way to your site so one if not more bad hops are there.