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{{IsIn|:Europe}}{{CanHostIn|Brussels|Belgium}}[[File: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]][[File:Kasper playing guitar at beach.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Playing guitar at the beach in [[Nelson]], [[New Zealand]].]]'''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 [[project:about|hitchwiki.org]], together with [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]. 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]]; [[Montreal]], [[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]]. In October 2008 he hitched from [[Amsterdam]] to [[Jerusalem]] through [[Turkey]], [[Syria]] and [[Jordan]].
== Professional activity ==Since In 2008 I work started working as an [http[://guaka.org/:consultancy |independent free software consultant], mostly with Drupal, also some CiviCRM and MediaWiki (e.g. for [http://wikimini.org/ Wikimini]), mainly with NGOs but also for businesses (such as my family's [http://sourenmeubels.nl/ teak furniture business]). As of 2016 I'm focused on building a fintech company, [[:b2bpay:about|B2B Pay]].
Longest rides:
* Monday the 12th of April, [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=49.635008,5.970297&daddr=valencia&hl=en&geocode=;FZ9EWgIdG0D6_ylT3JXQsEhgDTEy3khdIy6vZA&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=14&sll=49.638343,5.976563&sspn=0.032906,0.077162&ie=UTF8&ll=49.658517,5.985146&spn=0.13157,0.308647&z=12 from the gas station Capellen Luxembourg straight to Valencia, Spain] - 1500 km.
* 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].
* On the 14th of June 2007 [[amylin]] and I had a ride [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 :)
[[File:Hitchhikers with Chinese police man.jpg|thumb|300px|right|amylin and me with a friendly Chinese policeman]]
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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:
See also ''[[Hitchwiki:Why_we_work_on_Hitchwiki#Guaka|why we work on Hitchwiki]]''.
His main home in cyberspace can be found at [http[://guaka:|guaka.org guaka]]. He works on many different websites, from [https://sourenfurniture.orgcom/ selling furniture] to [[:moneyless:|living with much less or no money at all]] and of course [[:trash:|many]] [[:nomad:|other]] [[:couch:|wikis]].Some of his code is available at https://github.com/guaka
== Hitchhiking experience ==
* [[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]]
== Professional activity ==Hitchhiking [[File:Guaka my bithday2.jpg|thumb|300px|leftkasper:hitchhiking-great-business|Hitching to [[Nelsonhas been great]], [[New Zealand]] on for developing my 30th birthday]]professional skills.
== Random stuff ==
=== Stats ===
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 successfully hitched a ride with 5 other people, in [[Argentina]], around [[San Marcos Sierra]].
* 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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