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[[Image:HitchDelft.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Hitching to [[Delft]], [[Netherlands]] on Carnival vacation 2007]]
'''Mdsmendes''', or Miguel Mendes, is a contributor to this wiki.
Mdsmendes is also active on hospitality exchange networks such as [http://www.hospitalityclub.org/ HospitalityClub] and [http://www.couchsurfing.com/ CouchSurfing].
He was born in [[Lisboa]], [[Portugal]], and has lived there most of his life except for a small period in [[Barcelona]] So far he has travelled a bit through [[Europe]].
* [http://mestradonaartedeviver.blogspot.com/ Mdsmendes's blog (in Portuguese)]
==Hitchhiking experience==
[[Europe]]: [[Austria]], [[Belgium]], [[Denmark]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Italy]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Netherlands]], [[Poland]], [[Portugal]], [[Spain]], [[Switzerland]]
[[America]]: [[Brazil]], [[Argentina]], [[Ecuador]], [[Guatemala]], [[Mexico]], [[USA]]
==Present Travelling==
Now living in Berlin, Germany as an Erasmus student and planning many more hitching trips!
==Past Interesting Travels==
After working during the summer of 2007 to raise money, Miguel travelled for a year in South, Central and North America. First of all he volunteered at an orphanage close to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, called [http://www.casadocaminhobrasil.org/ Casa do Caminho].
===Stats===
On the 15th of February 2007 a friend and I had our longest ride ever: from Nîmes to Cologne, it was something around 1130 km :)
My longest wait was in [[France]] where I stayed at a gas station for 2 hours. Not much, I know.
Has hitchhiked in Europe and America. Total land covered? Around 27370 km.
[[Category:Hitchhikers]]
[[Category:Hitchhikers in Portugal]]
