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[[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 hitchhikinghitch-hiking...]]

Here is part of my hitch hiking hitchhiking bio and show off... ;)

* I started hitch hiking some years back hitchhiking 2002 in South Africa. Since then Between 2002 and 2009 I hitch hike mostly likely hitchhiked every year more than what the average person travels with their own car, train and maybe plane together. LatelyIn 2009, I hitchhiked back to Europe from Yemen.

* I see hitchhiking as a normal, even though special, mean means of transport. I do appreciate the personal and, --on a bigger scale, -- the cultural exchange and empowerment level perspective of hitch hikinghitchhiking. Most of the times time, I try to put hitch hiking hitchhiking in a big and interconnected picture.

* I do highly appreciate the diversity of hitch hikinghitchhiking.

* I am a fan of hitch hiking hitchhiking techniques, the psychology of hitchhiking and scientific views on hitchhiking, ; but also the ''hitch hiking [[hitchhiking flow]]'and ' and hitch hiking [[hitchhiking as meditation]]'. I also believe in a beauty and an art of hitchhiking.

* I do appreciate (and , 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 pushed the establishment of initiated and (co)founded [[abgefahren e.V.]], the German Hitchhiking Society in order, a.o., to facilitate more sustainability and long-term thinking in the (German) hitchhiking scene, e.g. give 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 scenecongress, 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.