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on behalf of the 5 Luxembourgish people who are tired of seeing their little country's name being misspelled
[[Image:Guaka my bithday2.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Hitching to [[Nelson]], [[New Zealand]] on my 30th birthday]][[Image:Kasper playing guitar at beach.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Playing guitar at the beach in [[Nelson]], [[New Zealand]].]]'''guaka''', or Kasper Souren, is administrator one of the administrators of this wiki. He moved the wiki from <tt>hitchhikingguide.org</tt> to Wikia, since over there it was being spammed all the time. And then, on November 24 2006, to [[project:about|hitchwiki.org]], together with [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]].Guaka is also active on several Wikipedias (he founded the [http://bm.wikipedia.org Bambara] and the [http://ff.wikipedia.org Fulfulde Wikipedia]) and on Wikitravel.
He was born in [[Nuth]], [[Netherlands]], but lived in [[Paris]], [[Mali]], travelled through [[Europe]] and [[South America]] for a long time, and worked If there's a bit in [[Lima]], [[Peru]], met '''[[amylin]]''' in [[Montreal]], hitchhiked technical problem with her in [[Quebec]], the [[United States]], [[New Zealand]], [[Australia]]Hitchwiki, from [[Thailand]] to [[Hong Kong]] and currently in [[Europe]]contact hitchwiki524 AT myusername DOT org.
* [http://guaka.org guaka.org]
==Hitchhiking experience==[Guaka is or has been also active on many Wikipedias (he founded the [Europe]]https: [[Netherlands//bm.wikipedia.org Bambara]], and the [[Belgium]https://ff.wikipedia.org Fulfulde Wikipedia]) and on Wikitravel. And he has worked on many online projects, [[France]]but Hitchwiki.org is definitely his favorite, [[Spain]]because of:* the free license, [[Austria]]* the convivial atmosphere, [[Germany]]* the ideal mix between ad-hoc and democratic decisions, [[Denmark]]* the steady stream of activity and constant growth (yearly doubling!), * the different languages (since 2007)* the clear objective and* the inherent qualities of the projectSee also ''[[Sweden]], [[Norway]], [[Finland]], [[Estonia]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Poland]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], [[Croatia]], [[England]], [[Italy]], [[SwitzerlandHitchwiki:Why_we_work_on_Hitchwiki#Guaka|why we work on Hitchwiki]]''.
His main home in cyberspace can be found at [[South America:guaka:|guaka.org]]. He works on many different websites, from [https: //sourenfurniture.com/ selling furniture] to [[Uruguay:moneyless:|living with much less or no money at all]], and of course [[Argentina:trash:|many]], [[Chile:nomad:|other]], [[Ecuador:couch:|wikis]]. Some of his code is available at https://github.com/guaka
== Hitchhiking experience ==''see also [[North America]]User: [[Canada]] (only in [[Quebec]]), [[United States]], [[New York State]], [[Oregon]], [[CaliforniaGuaka/log|my log]]''
* [[Europe]]: [[Netherlands]], [[Belgium]], [[France]], [[Spain]], [[Austria]], [[Germany]], [[Denmark]], [[Sweden]], [[Norway]], [[Finland]], [[Estonia]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Poland]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[England]], [[Italy]], [[Switzerland]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]]* [[South America]]: [[Uruguay]], [[Argentina]], [[Chile]], [[Ecuador]]* [[North America]]: [[Canada]] (only in [[Quebec]]), [[United States]], [[New York State]], [[Massachusetts]], [[New Hampshire]], [[Vermont]], [[Oregon]], [[California]], [[Arizona]]* [[Asia]]: From [[Thailand]], [[Chiang Rai]] through [[Laos]] to [[China]], towards [[Hong Kong]], from [[Istanbul]] to [[Jerusalem]], through [[Syria]] and [[Jordan]]* [[Africa]]: [[Bamako]] ([[Mali]])* [[Oceania]]: [[New Zealand]], [[Auckland]] to [[Wellington]] and around the South Island, [[Australia]], from [[Sydney]] to [[Melbourne]]
[[Africa]]== Random stuff ==Esteban: [[Bamako]] ([[Mali]])"U have a wiki about how not to pay busses? I tought I was stingy dude, but obviously there's always someone in the world who can cleary exceed your capabilities".
[[Oceania]]: [[New Zealand]], [[Auckland]] to [[Wellington]] and around the South Island, [[Australia]], from [[Sydney]] to [[Melbourne]]
==Random stuff= Stats ===Esteban: "U have a wiki about how not to pay busses? I tought I was stingy dude, but obviously there's always someone in the world who can cleary exceed your capabilities".
===Stats===
On the 14th of June 2007 [[amylin]] and I possibly had our longest ride ever, in Europe at least: [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=piacenza&daddr=cologne&sll=45.255555,9.662476&sspn=1.840641,5.141602&ie=UTF8&ll=45.009477,9.84581&spn=0.231075,0.6427&z=11&om=1 from Piacenza to Cologne], and the St. Gotthard tunnel was actually closed, so it was probably more than 1000 km :)
The shortest wait, well, that happened a lot, when your holding a sign when you get out of a car at a gas station on the highway and friendly people notice that.
My longest wait was in [[Argentina]] where I gave up after 18 hours.
* In 2006 I donsuccessfully hitched a ride with 5 other people, in [[Argentina]], around [[San Marcos Sierra]]. === [[Driving for your driver|Driving for my drivers]] ===* In 2005 or so, getting out of Paris, after being dropped at a really bad spot I started [[walking on the highway]] in the hot sun and after half an hour I was picked up by a guy moving from his stuff from [[Paris]] to somewhere south from [[Toulouse]]. He let me drive his car for 2 hours.* In June 2008, hitching from Amsterdam to [[Avignon]], I managed to get to a busy gas station in [[Luxembourg]] at around 22:00 and found a ride straight to my destination. The car's dashboard was not working, I wasn't know how much distance convinced of the driver's driving style and after an hour or so, and asking about my driving license, he offered me the steering wheel. I hitchhikeddrove all the way to Avignon.* In August 2008, but it's probably quite hitching from [[Berlin]] to [[Trento]] an Italian at a gas station close to [[Munich]] was a bit more than 100,000 km tired. He had dinner there and I showed him my driving license and I drove all the way to Trento through the pouring [[rain]].  {{user cc-by now.-sa}}[[fr:Utilisateur:Guaka]][[trash:User:Guaka]]
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