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[http[Image://yemen.jpg|thumb|240px|Waiting for a lift in Eastern [[Yemen]]: mind the camels.]] [[Image:Oman.JPG|thumb|240px|Hitching in [[Oman]] towards [[UAE]].]] [[Image:Iran.JPG|thumb|240px|Waiting for a ride in [[Iran]].]] [[Image:Erzurum.JPG|thumb|240px|Winter in Eastern [[Turkey]].]] [[Image:Truck and rakia.jpg|thumb|240px|Some Rakia with a truck driver in the middle of the night in the middle of [[Turkey]] - trying out myself why there are wise rules about no-[[drinking]] while hitch-hiking...]] Here is part of my hitchhiking bio and show off... ;) * I started hitchhiking 2002 in South Africa. Between 2002 and 2009 I mostly likely hitchhiked every year more than what the average person travels with their own car, train and maybe plane together. In 2009, I hitchhiked back to Europe from Yemen. * I see hitchhiking as a normal, even though special, means of transport. I do appreciate the personal and --on a bigger scale-- the cultural exchange and empowerment perspective of hitchhiking. Most of the time, I try to put hitchhiking in a big and interconnected picture. * I do highly appreciate the diversity of hitchhiking. * I am a fan of hitchhiking techniques, the psychology of hitchhiking and scientific views on hitchhiking; but also the '[[hitchhiking flow]]' and '[[hitchhiking as meditation]]'. I also believe in a beauty and an art of hitchhiking. * I do appreciate, stimulate and I am active for the exchange of information and cooperation within and to the outside of the hitchhiking community. Further, I am active for the sustainability of hitch hiking related activities and projects. * I initiated and (co)founded [[abgefahrene.V.]], the German Hitchhiking Society in order, a.o., to facilitate more sustainability and long-term thinking in the (German) hitchhiking scene, e.hitchbaseg.com/bloggive hitchhiking related initiatives a place to pass things on to the next generation, be a contact point for press work, or provide a legal entity where needed. * I push on making hitchhiking more mainstream. Concrete project plans range from holding a hitch-hiking congress, over organizing a Youth Exchange on European level (European Mobility aspect), to give a helping hand in order to get finally the Global Autostop Race realised. <small>[[Category:Hitchhikers]]</alex hh blog]small>
