User:Quarim

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About

Quarim is a 28 years old hitchhiker from Trier, Germany Flag Germany.png. He has hitchhiked in 20 countries in Europe but most of the way he did in Germany. Right now he stucks in his office at work and does most of the hitchhiking trips only in his head. In real he did a bit more than 26,000 km by hitchhiking. See his logfile of hitchhiking for more statistics

Quarim can communicate in german and english and also can make himself understandable in french and spanish, gaved up to learn russian.

Dreams

Yes, Quarim is a dreamer! He is dreaming about just leaving his office right now and go out hitching the famous silk road

from Istanbul to Beijing, continue to Australia find a boat to cross the pacific ocean taking him to Chile, then up the Panamericana to Alaska before going to the east coast of Canada, find a cargo ship to Iceland and being back before his lunch break ends.

Plans for 2011

  • Hike (not hitchhike) 170km through the Eifel mountains in Rhineland-Palatinate in only four days - August 2011
  • Plan, organize and run the abgefahren hitchhiking race 2011 - June 2011
  • Hitch a ride during my summer holidays in Cuba - planned for July 2011
  • Pub to Pub hitchhiking in Ireland - planned for September 2011
  • Prepare a survival training workshop for all interessted hitchhikers - done

Tasks

He was one of the organisators of the abgefahren hitchhiking race 2009 and 2010. And works for abgefahren e.V.

Statistics

Total hitchhiking distance: 26,483.9 km

Longest waits :

Shortest wait: no waiting time - only switching cars (more than 10 times)

Longest Lift: from somewhere on the motorway in Serbia to Vienna in Austria (over 600km)

Longest distance in 24h: from Berlin to Cologne via Giessen (656 km)

Top speed: up to 260 km/h on the german A7 from Hannover to Hamburg

Coldest Temperature hitchhiked: - 8°C at Dec 17th 2009 in Trier

Hottest Temperature hitchhiked: + 35.7°C at August 12th 2009 in Nazaré, Portugal

Highest altitude hitchhiked: about 1,700m in San Bernadino Tunnel, Switzerland in June 2009

Milestone of 25,000 km: Hitchhiked on 27th August 2010 between Osnabrück and Hannover, on that day they had a disaster alert in Osnabrück because of heavy rain and flooding. It was also the craziest weather Quarim hitchhiked in.


Contact

Pictures

In Dubrovnik, Croatia, may 2008
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Hitching minor roads in Brandenburg 2010
Hitching a forbidden spot in Italy, june 2009.