US destination next for Globerider PE family
	Published:Feb 17, 2009
The Port Elizabeth family Gary Allie, Jade, wife Jo-Anne, and Dane, taking time out on the beach in India at Cape Comorin on the southernmost tip of Asia. A DREAM is coming true for a Port Elizabeth family who are on an around the world adventure in their 4x4 vehicle. Dr Gary Allie, wife Jo-Anne, and children Jade and Dane, are in South East Asia and are still making their way successfully around the world, stopping to provide medical care as they go. They are the remaining Port Elizabeth Globerider family realising their dreams. The Cape2Cape Globerider Group left in March 2007 on an around the world trip with its families stopping at points along the trip to offer services as doctors to locals. All members of the group, except the remaining Allie family, have returned home after successfully crossing Africa and Europe on 4x4s fitted with Continental Tyres. Allie said: “Since the departure of my brother Dean‘s family back to Port Elizabeth, we know that the trip forward will be a lot more challenging without the support and companionship of the other vehicles, but we are confident and positive about continuing on our own.” The Allie family were speaking from India, having achieved another milestone by visiting the southernmost tip of Asia at Cape Comorin. “Since our successful tyre change in Delhi in October 2008, we have completed 7700km on the General Grabber AW tyres with no major hassles, only one flat due to a nail on the road. “The new tyres have taken us through the mountainous area of Nepal and the very bad roads in the North of India. The wider footprint has given the big vehicle more stability and hopefully decreases the load on the rims as we have had no rim cracks with the 7Js.” Allie said the family was planning to ship its vehicle to Malaysia within a couple of days and would then spend three months in South East Asia before shipping it to North America. “We will probably need one more tyre change in the US around July 2009 before starting the trip back to South Africa.” Once home, their journey would have taken them across the continents of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas in a trip covering 74 countries and 130000km. They are due back in early 2010. The Allie family are not the only group of intrepid travellers using Continental tyres on its tour. In Germany, record-breaking driver Rainer Ziegler‘s natural gas eco-tour is supported by tyres and a navigation system developed by Continental. In the course of Zietlow‘s 80-day tour, he is visiting each of Germany‘s 800 natural gas filling stations to promote environment-friendly natural gas as a fuel. Zietlow chose winter tyres with their low rolling resistance and the VW RNS 510 navigation system which is equipped with NAVTEQ card information to show the best possible route. “With the success we have had with our tyres on journeys through the world‘s roughest terrain – from dirt roads in Africa to mountain trails in Nepal,” says Continental Tyre (South Africa) spokesman Rene Olivier.