User:Chris9012

About me

I'm a 30-something Dutch hitchhiker. I live in Doetinchem, Netherlands. I mainly hitchhike for vacations, but have been getting into the habit of hitching for daytrips and errands as well. Also I spent way to much time logging all my rides in a excel-file that is getting rather slow.

Modus operandi: I'm a gas station exit dweller, as I believe that people that want to help will stop anyways. I prefer hitching without signs, but always carry a home made whiteboard.

In 2024 I participated in Tramprennen on the road from Schonungen to Estonia, and plan to join again in 2025.

Feel free to write something on my talk page, or find me on Insta. Chris_reist_rond. (On my story it's mainly pics of my backpack against guardrails).

Also I sometimes post travel story's in Dutch on my facebook page "Chris reist rond". (Chris travels around).

Some stats:

Total hitchhiked: 22.534 km
Longest journey: 8018 km. From the Netherland to Nordkapp, Finland, the Baltics, Germany and Poland. 31 days, 23 days of hitchhiking.
Furthest ride: 1006 km, from Piątnica, Poland to Raststätte Auetal, Germany.
Most KM per calender day: 1053km from Majaka, Estonia to the Polish A2 near Poznan.
Most KM in 24 hours: 1562km from Majaka, Estonia to the German A2 near Braunschweig.
Most ride's per day: 11x (Moskenes->Evenes)
Send off by police: 3x: Metz, Uppsala, Ostrava.