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It can take a while before you know how to hitchhike fast and efficient and also experienced hitchhikers sometimes need patience. In my own country I rarely need more than twenty minutes to find a driver when I am in a good or reasonable hitchhiking environment. I started hitchhiking actively in spring 2003. Before that I hitchhiked on occasion, for example to go back to the starting point of a hiking trip or to get back to a camping. The first experience was in the summer of 1993, when my father in a moment decided to hitchhike with me when we were walking in the French Alps. That way we managed to get up very high on the mountain. Otherwise we would not have succeeded in doing that.
== Longest and shortest rides Rides of over 250 kms ==My longest ride brought me from 1. [[Wroclaw]] in , [[Poland]] to a motorway petrol station near [[MönchengladbachMonchengladbach]] in , [[Germany]], which I calculated as january 2007, 882 kilometers (January 2007)km.2. On the second place is a ride in a truck from [[Jilhava]] in , [[Czech Republic]] to a motorway petrol station near [[Siegburg]] in , [[Germany]], a distance of september 2007, 797 kilometers (September 2007)km.3. The third longest ride was from the Polish border at [[Swiecko]], [[Poland]] to Lierop near [[EindhovenLierop]] in the , [[Netherlands]], a distance of about january 2006, 700 kilometers (January 2006)km.4. May 2007 I got a ride with a friend of 680 kilometres from a service area near [[LiegeBlegny]] (Luttich) in , [[Belgium]] to the beach of [[Berlin]]-Grunau, which was actually our destination[[Germany]], may 2007, 680 km (2 ppl). The ride from 5. [[Pomellen at the German side of the border between ]], [[Germany]] to [[BerlinReinhardshain]] and , [[SzczecinGermany]] had a length of , september 2006, 660 kilometers (September 2006)km.6. The sixth longest ride was from the border petrol station near [[HeerlenBocholtz]] in the , [[Netherlands]] to Konigs Wüsterhausen near [[BerlinKonigs Wusterhausen]] in , [[Germany]]: 640 kilometers (, june 2006), 640 km.7. Seventh place: from [[Michendorf]] in , [[Germany ]] to [[Vaals]], just accross the Dutch border: [[Netherlands]], may 2007, 599 km. 8- service area . [[Frechen near ]], [[KolnGermany]] to Alexanderplatz[[Berlin]], [[BerlinGermany]], may 2008, 596 km(2 ppl). 9- Grunauerstrasse. [[Berlin]], [[BerlinGermany]] to service area [[Remscheid near ]], [[KolnGermany]], may 2008, 563 km(3 ppl).10. In [[Frechen]], [[Germany]] to [[Michendorf]], [[Germany]], november 2003 I had a ride of , 540 kilometers from service area Frechen near km.11. [[Dresden]], [[Germany]] to [[Piotrkow Trybunalski]], [[Poland]], september 2005 , 480 km.12. [[Berlin]], [[Germany]] to [[Hamm]], [[Germany]], june 2006, 470 km (2 ppl).11. [[Hengelo]], [[KölnNetherlands]] to service area [[Michendorf]] near , [[BerlinGermany]], and in december 2006 I got another , 465 kilometer ride km.12. [[Trzciel]], [[Poland]] to [[Warsaw]], [[Poland]], december 2006, 390 km.13. [[Handarpe]], [[Germany]] to [[Michendorf]], [[Germany]], september 2007, 387 km (2 ppl).14. [[Eisenach]], [[Germany]] to [[Zgorzelec]], [[Poland]], december 2007, 370 km.15. [[Wroclaw]], [[Poland]] to [[Lubien]], [[Poland]], december 2007, 313 km.16. [[Manssworth]], [[Austria]] to [[Suben]], [[Austria]], january 2008, 291 km.17. [[Auetal]], [[Germany]] to [[Michendorf]] near , [[Germany]], december 2005, 290 km.18. [[Reinhardshain]], [[Germany]] to [[Aachen]], [[Germany]], september 2005, 280 km.19. [[Wurzburg]], [[Germany]] to [[Siegburg]], [[Germany]], january 2008, 278 km.20. [[BerlinMaastricht]], on that occasion from a service area close [[Netherlands]] to [[HengeloStaphorst]], [[Netherlands]], july 2005, 265 km.
== Shortest rides ==
My shortest lifts include several short rides of one kilometre, which were sometimes very helpful.
