User:Quarim
About
Quarim is a 28 years old hitchhiker from Trier, Germany . 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 25,000 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: 25,827.9 km
Longest waits :
- 3h30 min and then gave up - Raststätte Feistritz, Austria heading towards Slovenia
- 3h02 min and then gave up - Raststätte Göttesbrunn, Austria heading towards Bratislava, Slovakia
- 2h53 min near Praha, Czech Republic
- 2h45 min near Hildesheim, Germany
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 Belgrade to Vienna (644 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
- CS: quarim
- abgefahren e.V.