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About JC4ever<\/h1>\n

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Johan and Charmaine Classens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This\u00a0website tells\u00a0the stories and experiences\u00a0of Johan & Charmaine Claassens and about\u00a0their\u00a0journey around the world.<\/p>\n

Since leaving\u00a0Cape Town on 13th\u00a0June 2004,\u00a0we have traveled through South Africa<\/a>, Zimbabwe<\/a>, Mozambique<\/a>, Malawi<\/a>, Tanzania<\/a>, Kenya<\/a>, Ethiopia<\/a>, Djibouti<\/a>, Yemen<\/a>, Oman<\/a> and the United Arab Emirates<\/a>.\u00a0While we were based in Dubai (United Arab Emirates)\u00a0we did excursions to Islamabad<\/a> – Pakistan,\u00a0Germany and Jordan. We started the second leg of our Round The World\u00a0 journey from\u00a0Dubai on\u00a027 May 2008 and have traveled through Iran<\/a>, Turkey<\/a>, Greece<\/a>, Italy<\/a>, France<\/a>, Switzerland, Germany<\/a>, Belgium,\u00a0England<\/a>, Scotland. We crossed the\u00a0Atlantic Ocean<\/a> on board\u00a0the Queen Mary 2 (passenger ship)\u00a0and arrived in North America<\/a> at New York City.\u00a0From New York<\/a>, we travelled\u00a0to\u00a0Prudhoe Bay, Alaska<\/a>, the northernmost point (70 deg North)\u00a0on our journey so far. From\u00a0there the only way forward by road\u00a0is south,\u00a0 we\u00a0drove down\u00a0through Canada<\/a>, USA<\/a>, Mexico<\/a>, Belize<\/a>,\u00a0Guatemala<\/a> , Honduras<\/a>, Nicaragua<\/a>, Costa Rica<\/a> and Panama<\/a>.\u00a0From Panama we by passed the Darien Gap and\u00a0sailed the Caribbean sea to Cartagena in Colombia. This was our 5th continent, and from Cartagena we traveled through\u00a0Colombia<\/a>, Ecuador<\/a>, Peru<\/a>, Chile<\/a> and Argentina<\/a>, all the way\u00a0to 54 deg South and the southern most city in the World, Ushuaia. From Ushuaia\u00a0the only way by road is North, and we went back north to Buenos Aires and the north of Argentina, before we returned to Valparaiso, Chile, from where we have shipped the bike to\u00a0our 6th and final continent, Australia. We\u00a0crossed the Pacific Ocean on 25 July 2009\u00a0 on board an Airbus airplane to New Zealand<\/a>. We left New Zealand on 10 August 2009 for Melbourne, Australia<\/a>\u00a0, where we waited for the Bike to arrive and now we are living in\u00a0 Mandurah, Western Australia.<\/p>\n

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Our exact route around the world<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0bilingual site of a mixture of Afrikaans and English. When we started our journey, we did not have a website and the emails we sent home were a mixture of Afrikaans and English, please scroll down through the pages, as there is English paragraphs in between the Afrikaans. Hope you will\u00a0be able to follow both\u00a0and enjoy the adventure with us.<\/p>\n

I, Johan, am a born Bolander (Paarl) and Charmaine\u00a0is\u00a0a Capetonian\u00a0(Table View) – South Africans for the non-South African readers. Both of us are keen bikers and members of CMA<\/a> (Christian Motorcycle Association). Charmaine got her full colours in Windhoek, Namibia in 2000, where she was resident for 8 years and rode a Suzuki SV650. I got my full colours with the Cape Town chapter in 1999, and have been around the Southern African continent on various excursions of my own.<\/p>\n

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About Charmaine<\/h1>\n

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When Charmaine moved back to Cape Town in 2002, we met each other through CMA’s Bikers Church and again, the rest is history. The Lord laid it on our hearts to get married, pack the bike and tour the world. He will guide and lead us as we go, as simple as that. When you read our tour testimony, you will see how God’samazing protecting hand was with us and where the Lord guided us to be where we are today.<\/p>\n

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About Johan<\/h1>\n

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Dit het als begin terug in 1995, toe ek en ‘n vriend van my, Thinus, ons eerste lang pad gevat het met ons Kawasaki 550\u2019s. Dit was ‘n besluit op die ingewing van die oomblik, toe ons besluit het om die volgende dag George toe te ry om oujaarsaand daar dear te bring. My eerste rally was die volgende jaar, die keer in die Baai, ook met my GPZ550. Die res is geskiedenis, soos hulle mos s\u0119, die gogga het gebyt. In die winter vakansie van 1997 het ek my eerste ekspedisie oor die grens gemaak, Victoria waterval toe, ‘n hele 2700km vanaf die Paarl. My Kawasaki Z1100 het my en my suster, Charmaine sonder enige drama veilig soontoe en terug geneem. Soos my eerste lang pad in ’95, sal ek seker nooit die gevoel vergeet van my eerste ervaring van ‘n vreemde land nie. Met daardie trip was die spreekwoordelike ko\u00ebl deur die kerk, en die reis-gogga wat gebyt het, het aanhou groei. Intussen het ek meeste geteerde paaie in ons land deurkruis in al 9 provinsies, en die afgelee grondpaaie het my begin fasineer. Dis toe dat ek oorskakel vanaf ‘n padfiets na ‘n dubbel doel fiets, ‘n BMW F650. In 2000 het ek my eerste Kaapstad na Londen droom-toer se geld gebruik om ‘n nuwe 1150GS aangeskaf, met die gevolg die toer het toe nooit plaasgevind nie. In die winter vakansie van 2002 het ek getoer deur Mosambiek, Malawi, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Zambia en Botswana, ‘n hele 14,000km in 32 dae en weereens sal ek nie sommer die gevoel vergeet van die eerste indrukke van ‘n nuwe land nie. My droom om die ewenaar te oorkruis met my yster moes egter wag vir ‘n volgende geleentheid.<\/p>\n

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“Enjoy the Adventure with Us”<\/h3>\n

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