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== About ==
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Robert '"<span style="color:blue">prino' </span>" Prins is a 48-year old hitchhiking grandfather of two, born in the [[Netherlands]], but now living in [[Oostende]] in [[Belgium]].
His <span style="color:blue">'''recorded'''</span> hitchhiking career started on 16 June 1980 at 7:47 and as of 30 September 2008 he has hitched 268,235.4 km in the following 32 countries:
== Projects ==
* He is the author of a [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hitching/files/Robert%27s%20programs/ set of programs] to extract various statistics from notes made while hitchhiking. Some of his statistics were used in Sylvain Viard's Master's thesis [http://membres.lycos.fr/bpierret/memoire/memoire.html Auto-stop Approche géographique] from 1999.
== Random ==
The origins of "<span style="color:blue">'''prino'''</span>"?
The name "<span style="color:blue">prino</span>" was "given" to him in 1974 by his chemistry teacher, Eelco Hessling. When going through the names in his teachers notebook, he could not read his own handwriting, called "Robert Prins" "Robert Prino". The name was taken over by a few of his classmates and has stuck ever since.
== Contact ==