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== Future ==* Shoot In Hawai'i a movie about hitchhiking from [[Europe]] to [[Europe]] via [[Australia]].lady picked me up and we ended up touring around the island and met two days later for more sight-seeing
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Watch the video about my trip through Australia: http://vimeo.com/54844490
== About ==
[[File:Bernhard.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Bernhard hitchhiking in [[Chile]].]]
*Bernhard is a film making student maker originally from [[Austria]] and he has been to more than 30 35 countries.*So far, he hitchhiked in the [[United Kingdom]], [[United States]], [[Chile]], [[Ecuador]], [[Australia]], [[New Caledonia]], [[Cook Islands]] and [[EcuadorFrench Polynesia]] and is also a very active [[Couchsurfing|couch surfer]].*He speaks German, English, French, Spanish and a bit of Finnish and Russian.*He started hitchhiking in June 2009 and did around 10 20 000 km since then, mostly in [[Chile]] and [[Australia]].
== Personal records ==
* '''Longest Rides'''
** 1438 km, from somewhere on the [[Ruta 5]] next to [[La Ligua]] to [[Calama]] via El Salvador in [[Chile]] in April 2010.
** 1363 km, from [[Ceduna]] to [[Coolgardie]] in [[Australia]] in August 2012.
** 715 km, from [[Narromine]] to [[Broken Hill]] in [[Australia]] in August 2012.
** 553 km, from [[Coolgardie]] to [[Perth]] in [[Australia]] in August 2012.
** 464 km, from [[Holyhead]] to [[London]] in the [[United Kingdom]] in June 2009.
** 422 km, from [[Concepcion]] to [[Rancagua]] in [[Chile]] in March 2010.
* '''Longest distance'''
** 2003 km From from [[Concepcion]] to [[Calama]] in [[Chile]] in April 2010. (I broke the trip up in [[Santiago de Chile]], though.)** 4650 km from [[Brisbane]] to [[Perth]] in [[Australia]] in August 2012.
* '''Worst waiting time'''
* '''Shortest waiting time'''
** 1 Minute in [[Chillan]], [[Chile]]. I hoped hopped out of the car and was walking with my sign for 2 metres back and immediately another car pulled over.
== Remarkable Moments ==
* A crazy guy somewhere on the [[Ruta 5]] in [[Chile]] picked me up and drove with 160km/h, overtook cars from the right and finally showed me an exceptionally big amount of cocaine. I am sure he was on drugs during this ride.
* My longest ride with almost 1500km. I A guy gave me a lift and as he had to go far, I ended up driving the car for some time as well. He offered me to stay at his house for the night and paid for food and drinks. Next day a friend of him needed to go to the exact same destination as I wanted to go and I could go with him - also driving the car part time. * I managed to housesit a beach house in [[Ceduna]] for 5 days.
* Well, there are numberless moments more, since something special happens all the time. People tried to convert me to the Islam, I positively hitchhiked within a car (holding the sign out of the window while I was in a car who gave me a lift), got free food and drinks, was kicked out of a car in the night somewhere on a highway where the cars passed by with 120km/h.
== Map ==<travelmap countries="at,fi,pe,es,au" c2="cl,gb,us,ec,au,nc,fp"
c3="si,hr,de,it,hu,mx,bz,gt,sk,fr,pl,se,ee,ru,ar,uy,bo,co,ie,ca,no,cz,pt,ae"
width="1000980" description='red: lived there, yellow: hitched and lived there (but I have not lived not in Ecuador), blue: traveled there' />
[[Category:Hitchhikers]]
[[Category:Hitchhikers in Austria]]
