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| − | [[Image:Kasper-hitch-nh.jpg|thumb|300px|[[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> hitching in [[New England]] taken by [[amylin]], September 2007]]
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| − | [[Image:Kasper playing guitar at beach.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Playing guitar at the beach in [[Nelson]], [[New Zealand]].]]
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| − | '''guaka''', or Kasper Souren, is 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 hitchwiki.org, together with [[MrTweek]].
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| − | He was born in [[Nuth]], [[Netherlands]], but lived in [[Paris]], [[Mali]], hitchhiked through [[Europe]] and [[South America]] for a long time, and worked a bit in [[Lima]], [[Peru]]; then met the lovely '''[[amylin]]''' in [[Montreal]], and hitchhiked with her in [[Quebec]], the [[United States]], [[New Zealand]], [[Australia]], from [[Thailand]] to [[Hong Kong]] and in [[Europe]]. Lived in [[Trento]], [[Italy]] since July 2007, and as of January 2008 in [[Amsterdam]].
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| − | Guaka is or has been also active on many Wikipedias (he founded the [http://bm.wikipedia.org Bambara] and the [http://ff.wikipedia.org Fulfulde Wikipedia]) and on Wikitravel. And he has worked on many online projects, but Hitchwiki.org is definitely his favorite, because of:
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| − | * the free license,
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| − | * the convivial atmosphere,
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| − | * the ideal mix between ad-hoc and democratic decisions,
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| − | * the steady stream of activity and constant growth (yearly doubling!),
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| − | * the different languages (since 2007)
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| − | * the clear objective and
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| − | * the inherent qualities of the project
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| − | See also ''[[Hitchwiki:Why_we_work_on_Hitchwiki#Guaka|why we work on Hitchwiki]]''.
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| − | His main home in cyberspace can be found at [http://guaka.org guaka.org].
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| − | ==Hitchhiking experience==
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| − | ''see also [[User:Guaka/log|my log]]''
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| − | * [[Europe]]: [[Netherlands]], [[Belgium]], [[France]], [[Spain]], [[Austria]], [[Germany]], [[Denmark]], [[Sweden]], [[Norway]], [[Finland]], [[Estonia]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Poland]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], [[Croatia]], [[England]], [[Italy]], [[Switzerland]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]]
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| − | * [[South America]]: [[Uruguay]], [[Argentina]], [[Chile]], [[Ecuador]]
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| − | * [[North America]]: [[Canada]] (only in [[Quebec]]), [[United States]], [[New York State]], [[Oregon]], [[California]]
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| − | * [[Asia]]: From [[Thailand]], [[Chiang Rai]] through [[Laos]] to [[China]], towards [[Hong Kong]], from [[Istanbul] to [[Jerusalem]], through [[Syria]] and [[Jordan]]
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| − | * [[Africa]]: [[Bamako]] ([[Mali]])
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| − | * [[Oceania]]: [[New Zealand]], [[Auckland]] to [[Wellington]] and around the South Island, [[Australia]], from [[Sydney]] to [[Melbourne]]
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| − | [[Image:Guaka my bithday2.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Hitching to [[Nelson]], [[New Zealand]] on my 30th birthday]]
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| − | ==Random stuff==
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| − | 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".
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| − | ===Stats===
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| − | On the 29th of July 2008 Erga and I had a ride from [[Sundsvall]], Sweden to [[Alta]] in the North of [[Norway]], with a detour through [[Solleftea]]: [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=Sundsvall,+Sweden&daddr=63.169235,17.259521+to:Alta,+Norge&hl=nn&geocode=3005655670323007979,63.146620,17.391390&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=8&via=1&sll=63.283062,19.154663&sspn=1.516485,5.822754&ie=UTF8&ll=66.618122,21.75293&spn=10.775532,46.582031&z=5 google maps].
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| − | 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 :)
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| − | 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.
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| − | My longest wait was in [[Argentina]] where I gave up after 18 hours.
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| − | [[Image:Hitchhikers with Chinese police man.jpg|thumb|300px|right|amylin and me with a friendly Chinese policeman]]
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| − | ===[[Driving for your driver|Driving for my drivers]]===
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| − | * 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.
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| − | * In June 2008, hitching from Amsterdam to [[Avignon]], I managed to get to a busy gas station in [[Luxemburg]] at around 22:00 and found a ride straight to my destination. The car's dashboard was not working, I wasn't 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 drove all the way to Avignon.
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| − | * In August 2008, hitching from [[Berlin]] to [[Trento]] an Italian at a gas station close to [[Munich]] was a bit tired. He had dinner there and I showed him my driving license and I drove all the way to Trento through the pouring rain.
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