Prino

Robert 'prino' Prins is a 48-year old hitchhiking grandfather of two, born in the Netherlands, but now living in Oostende in Belgium.

As of 30 September 2008, he has hitched 268,235.4 km in the following 32 countries:

Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Belgium, Italy, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Ireland, Japan, San Marino, Portugal, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia.

He is the author of a set of programs to extract various statistics from notes made while hitchhiking. Some of his statistics were used in Sylvain Viard's Master's thesis Auto-stop Approche géographique from 1999.