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[[Image:ludopascalandme.jpg|thumb|300px|[[User:Garthelgard|Garthelgard]]<small><sup>, [[user talk:Garthelgard|wikitalk]]</sup></small> Pascal,Ludovic and me May 2008]]
Garthelgard was born in [[Toulon]], [[France]] but lived in the [[United States]], [[Australia]] and [[Russia]].
==Hitchhiking philosophy==
===On-ramps===
Garthelgard believes in eye contact and either sticking out your thumb, holding a sign with your destination or a joke sign
===Gas stations===
Gas stations is Garthelgard's favorite hitchhiking spot because he gets to talk to a lot of different people.
He believes in an active attitude consisting in striking up a conversation with drivers.
In Europe, Garthelgard beleives in the use of a funny ice-breaker: he flashes his Tokyo sign at drivers and asks them "Excuse me, are you going to Tokyo today".
The ice breaker is essential in order to break the whole "I don't-know-you-why-should-I-take-you-for-all-i-know-you-could-be-a-criminal" pattern.
For Garthelgard, the second step consists in explaining his project ( who he is, where he is from, where he left, who took him before, why is he going to his destination, what he does for a living, why does he hitchhike) in order to reassure people and break the common stereotype of the hitchhiker
==Why hitchhiking?==
==Hitchhiking experience==
[[Europe]]: [[Austria]], [[Belgium]], [[DanemarkBulgaria]], [[Denmark]], [[Estonia]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Hungary]], [[Italy]], [[Kosovo]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Macedonia]], [[Netherlands]], [[Poland]], [[Serbia]], [[Spain]], [[Sweden]].
[[Asia]]: [[Mongolia]], [[Russia]], [[Thailand]], [[Turkey]].
==Statistics==
<b>10784 km28721km</b> ==Current Location== Berlin, Germany [[Category:Hitchhikers]][[Category:Hitchhikers in Denmark]]
