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Robert "<span style="color:blue">prino</span>" Prins is a 50-year old hitchhiking grandfather of two, born in the [[Netherlands]], but now living in [[Oostende]] in [[Belgium]].
His <span style="color:blue">'''recorded'''</span> hitchhiking career started on 16 June 1980 at 7:47 and as of 27 April 16 June 2010 he has hitched 282284,194616.4 km in the following 32 countries:
[[Netherlands]], [[Germany]], [[Denmark]], [[Sweden]], [[Norway]], [[Finland]], [[France]], [[Austria]], [[Yugoslavia]], [[Greece]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]], [[Belgium]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Italy]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Poland]], [[Lithuania]], [[Latvia]], [[Estonia]], [[Liechtenstein]], [[Switzerland]], [[Ireland]], [[Japan]], [[San Marino]], [[Portugal]], [[Spain]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Croatia]] and [[Slovenia]].
== Personal hitch-hike records/statistics ==
[[Image:prino-guinness.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Whoopie!]]
* '''Career distance:''' 282284,194616.4 km (as of 2010-04-27T17:21)
* '''Best 24 hour:''' 2,318.4 km, from Southern Yugoslavia (1989-07-05T00:00) to just before Raststätte Hamburg-Stillhorn (Germany) (1989-07-05T24:00). This record can be found on page 179 of the 1991 UK edition of the Guinness Book of Records.
* '''Longest ride:''' 2,502.9 km, from [[Platamon]] (Greece) (1990-08-13T16:32) to [[Driebergen]] (Netherlands) (1990-08-15T12:54).
* '''Fastest ride:''' 181190.9 2 km/h (<span style="color:blue">''average speed!''</span>), from Raststätte Wildeshausen Aurach (Germany) (20022010-0506-01T03.2814T20:06) to Raststätte Grundbergsee In der Holledau (20022010-0506-01T0314T20:4750). There have been a multitude of rides where the highest speed has exceeded this value, with speeds up to around 255 km/h!* '''Fastest trip:''' 2,898422.5 0 km in 2319:40 43 hours (<span style="color:blue">''actual driving time''</span>), from [[Oostende]] (Belgium) (2010-0406-12T0514T05:5749) via Germany and Luxembourg ([[München]](ish)/[[Berlin]](ish)) back to [[BrusselsOostende]] (Belgium) (2010-0406-14T2016T10:2206).
* Best [http://www.autostop.lt/ '''Vilniaus Autostopo Klubas'''] traveller (distance-wise) for the club years of 2001/2 and 2007/8.
