User:Theo
Theo is a hitchhiker from Sweden who's currently thumbing his way through Africa.
Hitchhiking
Europe --> Bosnia,Slovenia, Poland*, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Monaco*, Serbia*, Slovakia, Kosovo, Holland*, Belgium*, Luxembourg*, Greece, Albania, Austria*, Czech Republic, , Switzerland, Norway, Italy, Croatia, Romania, Denmark Spain, Germany, Andorra, Bulgaria, France, and Belgium*.
Asia --> Iraqi Kurdistan, Georgia and Turkey
Africa --> Morocco, Namibia, Senegal,Zimbabwe,Mozambique and South Africa.
Statistics
Longest ride: Europe: From Barcelona to 10 minutes from my parents doorstep in Göteborg, Sweden with a somewhat strange truckdriver. 2344 kilometers, 92 hours. Africa: From Bloemfountein to the Mozambique border post just east of Mutare in Zimbabwe. 1403 kilometers, 21 hours. Asia:
Fastest ride: 1482 km in 7 hours. Messina - Chamonix.
Slowest ride: 25 km in about 7 hours on a small, untrafficked (we didnt see a single other human being), Georgian mountain road although we did come across a abondoned Soviet war-poison factory with all the poison having been left to decompose in a very un-organic way.
Longest waiting time: 24 hours of actively hitchhiking (time spent eating tapas and sleeping 2 nights are not counted ^^). On a petrol station north of Malaga.
Funniest ride: Crazy georgian truckdriver on another small georgian mountain road going to Mestia in the middle of the night.
Longest ride offer: 4127 kilometers from Namibia down to Cape Town then up to Livingstone in Zambia through Durban. Who said you only get short rides in Africa ;D.
Most hitchhiked country - Turkey. 128 days and something like 20000 kilometers (in need of a update haha)
Total distance: Somewhere in between 80 000 and 120 000 kilometers.
Contact
Try couchsurfing