User:MOAH

Hi! I'm Iris! MOAH = Mind of a Hitchhiker (www.mindofahitchhiker.com). I hitchhiked for the first time in September 2012 and have hitchhiked pretty much non-stop since November 2013. I travel on a Dutch passport.

Hitched Countries

Here's the list of countries I've hitchhiked (solo) in. All country pages I've made edits to are linked.

Europe

• Austria
• England
• Scotland
• Wales
• Belgium
• The Netherlands
• France
• Spain & the Canary Islands
• Portugal
• San Marino
• Italy
• Germany
• Denmark
• Sweden
• Finland
• Norway
• Poland
• Hungary
• Romania
• Ukraine
• Georgia (+ Abkhazia)
• Armenia
• Turkey (+ Northern Cyprus)
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Croatia
• Albania
• Serbia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• Greece (Corfu)
• Montenegro
• Moldova (+Transnistria)
• Malta
• Belarus
• Lithuania
• Latvia
• Switzerland

Central America

• Mexico
• Belize
• Guatemala
• El Salvador
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Costa Rica
• Panama

South America

• Brazil mostly Brazil#Border_Crossings
• Paraguay
• Bolivia
• Peru
• Chile
• Argentina mainly the Cordoba sections
• Uruguay
• Ecuador
• Colombia

Africa

• Tunisia
• Cabo Verde
• Madagascar
• Mauritius + Rodrigues

Asia

• Iran
• China
• Myanmar
• Thailand
• Malaysia
• United Arab Emirates
• Kyrgyzstan

Trivia

I have.../I am.../I...

• Hitchhiked with three guys named "Chris" consecutively on the same day in Wales, in 2013.
• Never hitchhiked with a female truck driver
• Highest altitude hitched: 4700 something meters above sea level on the Paso Agua Negra border from Argentina to Chile
• Thought both Hummers and Smarts were in unhitchable until hitching a Smart in Tirana, Albania in 2015 with two people already present. 2020 update: still no Hummers in sight.
• Often get weed offered directly after stating saying I'm from the Netherlands
• Traumatized by hitching in Spain
• The superstition that a car will stop seconds after lighting up a cigarette (quit smoking as of April 2016)
• Chain smokes occasionally because of that ^ (not anymore)
• An avid freecamper
• Sometimes pretend to be driving in order to stay awake in the car (try it!)