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==My experience with hitchhiking==I have hitchhiking experience in the [[United KingdomImage:Robino_hitching.jpg|200px|thumb|right|To a [[Germany|German]] rainbow gathering in 2009]], [[Image:Granada.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Me hitching from [[NetherlandsValencia]], to [[GermanyGranada]] in 2006]], [[Image:Robino_Sitarane.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[FranceRobino]], & [[Czech RepublicSitarane]] and with their drivers while hitching from [[SpainAmsterdam]]. I am planning to do a hitchhiking trip from [[AmsterdamParis]] to for the [[Istanbul888]]-event, August 2008]] winter 2007.

Currently I live ==Experience==Robino has hitchhiking experience in the [[United Kingdom]], [[Ireland]], [[Wales]], [[England]], [[Belgium]], [[Netherlands]], [[Germany]], [[France]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Switzerland]], [[Austria]], [[Slovenia]], [[Italy]], [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Spain]], [[BarcelonaRomania]], [[Poland]], [[Ukraine]], [[Turkey]] and [[Portugal]]. I also have The first time hitching was in '98 with a Couchsurfing girl from [http://couchsurfing[Nijmegen]] to [[Amsterdam]]. After four rides they got stuck somewhere in [[Utrecht]] and he took a train.com/robino profileA year later he hitched around the UK twice and - apart from that day he took a wrong car out of [[London]]- he happily never gave up again.

==My philosophy on hitchhiking==Hitchhiking is Since February 2009, Robino also started to hitchhike from his home to his office, once or twice a sportweek, and writes about that in Dutch at [http://liftenwerkt.nl Liften werkt]. For me it is not about cheap travellingDue to his unfitness to work in an commercial office he had to quit this job just 6 weeks later. But ironically, but about meeting random people of whome some never turn out on his final hitch to be so random at allthe office, he was offered another job by his driver.

I believe also ==Philosophy==Hitchhiking for me is above everything a sport (as in hitchhiking karmamental exercise and endurance). I generally sense which cars stop for meIt is not about cheap travel but about persistence, creativity, sharing, strategy, interpersonal skills and which persons to talk meeting random people - of whom some never turn out to when waiting for a ridebe so 'random' at all.

My longest waiting time never exceeded over an hourI believe also in 'hitchhiking inevitabilities', especially if you surrender to the road. If you hitch like this, many times you are ending up getting specifically those rides which - in one way or another - have a significant correlation with your life, experiences or mindset. You can also make rides happen but you should be wise enough to listen very carefully to what the road is trying to tell you. Things that are out of the ordinary do happen.

==Non-action==I strongly used to believe in a hitchhiker with an active attitude, ; walking up to people drivers and talking talk to them to ask them for a ride. Whether you are waiting at a service station, restarea rest-area or simply at a roundabout or traffic lights where cars stop. One of my favourite approaches is to wave and make them stop and then make the driver understand what I am actually doing: hitching.

But over the last couple of years, I highly recommend more and more believe in mixing it with taking it easy, lying down in the grass with a sign next to at least speak some you, reading a book, writing notes, taking a nap, and just waiting for a driver to wake you up, even without putting up your thumb all the time. The "right driver" will recognize and stop for 'that relaxed person'. Try it. I got rides of 1,000 km like this with wonderful connections. Just by doing "nothing". ==Photos==I have a collection of photos of people hitchhiking sentences . [https://robokow.net/hitchhikers Check it out]! ==Missions==These were my missions as I wrote them in 2010. None of these has been accomplished yet ;-)* To hitch the language complete [[:Category:E40|E40]], 8500 kilometer long from [[Calais]] to [[Ridder]] in [[Kazakhstan]], and further into [[China]].* To cross one of the country where travellingOceans by [[sailboat|boat hitching]]* To have a copy of [[Random Roads]] in my hands before [[6810|6-8-10]] ==Personal==Currently I live in Amsterdam. I also lived in [[Barcelona]], [[Istanbul]], [[Het_Gooi|Huizen]] and [[Newcastle]]. If you're coming to Amsterdam, [https://www.bewelcome.org/bw/member.php?cid=robino Be Welcome]. [http://casarobino.org My house] used to be regularly visited by other hitchhikers (but that's kind of over now). You can also have a look at my [https://robokow.net personal website] and send me [https://www.robokow.net/contact an e-mail].              [[Category:Hitchhikers]][[Category:Hitchhikers in the Netherlands]] {{user cc-by-sa}} {{IsIn|:Amsterdam}}