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== About ==
[[File:North Hiking.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Hitchhiking to the [[Yukon]]. Cold!]]
Notapalooka aka Alyssa is a 24 year old hitchhiker from Canada. She has hitched over '''50,000 km''' around the world, mostly in Canada and '''Africa'''. At 22 she finished university and took off hitchhiking, first a 'test-run' in Canada, and then overseas with the general idea of going everywhere. After twenty months in Africa she returned briefly to Canada to take care of an emergency, hitched from Toronto to Dawson City, Yukon, and is now Eurasia bound once again, this time heading through Turkey and Iran to Central Asia and beyond.
Blog and more: [http://www.opendestination.ca/index.html/ Open Destination]
== Personal Records ==
'''Total hitchhiking distance:''' Over 52,200 km
'''Longest wait :''' Full day trying to get to [[Inuvik]] and [[Tuktiyuktuk]], [[NWT]] along ice roads - not a single vehicle passed and it was -30°C, so gave up. Also spent several weeks in the Fouta Djallon in Guinea, zero cars and few motorcycles passed, so ended up walking.
'''Shortest wait:''' no wait - just switching cars
'''Longest Ride (distance):''' outside [[Whitehorse]], [[Yukon]] to [[Cache Creek]], [[British Columbia]], approximately 1500 km
'''Longest Ride (time):''' 13 days. Hitched on a train in DRC that was supposed to arrive in two days.
'''Top speed:''' 240 km/h through southern [[Western Sahara]]
'''Coldest Temperature:''' - 44°C outside [[Whitehorse]], [[Yukon]] in November
'''Hottest Temperature:''' + 46°C outside [[Tambacounda]], [[Senegal]] in May
'''Most Interesting Rides:''' Either jumping into the famous Mauritanian iron ore train and ending up in the middle of the desert, or getting peddled along by an old man on a bicycle (at his insistence)
[[File:North Hiking.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Hitchhiking to the [[Yukon]]. Cold!]]
Notapalooka aka Alyssa is a 24 year old hitchhiker from Canada. She has hitched over '''50,000 km''' around the world, mostly in Canada and '''Africa'''. At 22 she finished university and took off hitchhiking, first a 'test-run' in Canada, and then overseas with the general idea of going everywhere. After twenty months in Africa she returned briefly to Canada to take care of an emergency, hitched from Toronto to Dawson City, Yukon, and is now Eurasia bound once again, this time heading through Turkey and Iran to Central Asia and beyond.
Blog and more: [http://www.opendestination.ca/index.html/ Open Destination]
== Personal Records ==
'''Total hitchhiking distance:''' Over 52,200 km
'''Longest wait :''' Full day trying to get to [[Inuvik]] and [[Tuktiyuktuk]], [[NWT]] along ice roads - not a single vehicle passed and it was -30°C, so gave up. Also spent several weeks in the Fouta Djallon in Guinea, zero cars and few motorcycles passed, so ended up walking.
'''Shortest wait:''' no wait - just switching cars
'''Longest Ride (distance):''' outside [[Whitehorse]], [[Yukon]] to [[Cache Creek]], [[British Columbia]], approximately 1500 km
'''Longest Ride (time):''' 13 days. Hitched on a train in DRC that was supposed to arrive in two days.
'''Top speed:''' 240 km/h through southern [[Western Sahara]]
'''Coldest Temperature:''' - 44°C outside [[Whitehorse]], [[Yukon]] in November
'''Hottest Temperature:''' + 46°C outside [[Tambacounda]], [[Senegal]] in May
'''Most Interesting Rides:''' Either jumping into the famous Mauritanian iron ore train and ending up in the middle of the desert, or getting peddled along by an old man on a bicycle (at his insistence)
