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[[Image:Amylin-laos-hh-websiteversion.jpg|700 px|thumb|center|[[User:Amylin|Amylin]] hitchhiking from [[Laos]] to [[China]] in May 2007.]]
""amylin"" is working artist from Brooklyn, [[New York]], who later moved to [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], [[Canada]], and began hitchhiking around [[North America]] from there.  She details some of her hitchhiking trips in her [http://amylinicle.livejournal.com blog], and she is a proud Ambassador of [http://couchsurfing.com/amylin The CouchSurfing Project].  She plans to visit every country in the world before she dies.
 
  
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'''Amylin''' is based in İstanbul, Türkiye, where she is often found hitchhiking everyday (mostly motorcycles).
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[[Image:3722864915 ba9dbf3a1d.jpg|375 px|thumb|right|Amylin hand-drew & painted this flyer for the [[789]] hitchhiking gathering in [[Odessa]], [[Ukraine]].]]
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==Hitchhiking Experience==
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* '''[[Africa]]''': [[Morocco]];
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* '''[[Asia]]''': [[China]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Laos]], [[Thailand]], [[Turkey]];
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* '''[[Europe]]''': [[Austria]], [[Belgium]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Canary Islands]], [[Croatia]], [[Denmark]], [[England]], [[Estonia]], [[Finland]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Hungary]], [[Italy]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Moldova]], [[Netherlands]], [[Norway]], [[Poland]], [[Portugal]], [[Romania]], [[Serbia]], [[Spain]], [[Slovenia]], [[Sweden]], [[Switzerland]], [[Turkey]], [[Ukraine]]
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* '''[[North America]]''': [[Canada]], '''[[United States]]''': [[California]], [[Connecticut]], [[Maine]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Nevada]], [[New Hampshire]], [[New Jersey]], [[New York State]], [[Oregon]], [[Rhode Island]], [[Vermont]], [[Washington]];
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* '''[[Oceania]]''': [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]]
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==Statistics==
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[[File:Espana.jpg|375 px|thumb|hitchhiking from [[Portugal]] to [[Spain]] with Dominic, August 2010.]]
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'''Sample Cross-Section of Distance vs. Time:'''
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* 2,710 km in 40 hours - [[Algeciras]] to [[Amsterdam]]
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* 2,600 km in 48 hours - [[Erlangen]] to [[Porto]]
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* 2,750 km in 50 hours - [[Istanbul]] to [[Amsterdam]]
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* 1,630 km in 22 hours - [[Grenoble]] to [[Porto]] (in winter, through heavy rain and snow)
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* 1,560 km in 25 hours - [[Marijampole]] to [[Amsterdam]]
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* 1,100 km in 16 hours - [[Amsterdam]] to [[Bordeaux]]
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* 290 km in 3.5 hours - [[Oslo]] to [[Gothenburg]]
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* 360 km in 4.5 hours - [[Rabat]] to [[Marrakech]]
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* 220 km in 3 hours - [[Maastricht]] to [[Amsterdam]] in the morning...
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* ...and the same 220 km in 4.5 hours in the evening of the same day returning [[Amsterdam]] to [[Maastricht]] in time for dinner.
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==Links==
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* [http://amyl.in personal site]
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* [http://society6.com/amylin/prints society6]
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* [http://www.artflakes.com/en/shop/amylin artflakes]
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* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/amylin flickr]
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[[Category:Hitchhikers]] [[Category:Hitchhikers in Turkey]]

Latest revision as of 00:03, 15 August 2012

Amylin hitchhiking from Laos to China in May 2007.

Amylin is based in İstanbul, Türkiye, where she is often found hitchhiking everyday (mostly motorcycles).


File:3722864915 ba9dbf3a1d.jpg
Amylin hand-drew & painted this flyer for the 789 hitchhiking gathering in Odessa, Ukraine.



Hitchhiking Experience

Statistics

File:Espana.jpg
hitchhiking from Portugal to Spain with Dominic, August 2010.

Sample Cross-Section of Distance vs. Time:

Links