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olomonbasoua[[ImageFile:DSC01806.JPG|right|thumb|300px|platschi hitchhiking in [[Turkey]]]][[ImageFile:Serbia_platschi.jpg|right|thumb|300px|platschi hitchhiking in [[Serbia]]]][[File:P1010833.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Together with [[User:Korn|Korn]] in [[Uruguay]]]] 

===About===Platschi is an addicted a hitchhiker from , moving around planet Earth. A more or less complete statistical record of past trips can be found on [http://www.hitchlog.com/en/hitchhikers/platschi hitchlog]. === Hitchhiking ===Platschi hitchhiked through/inside the following countries (year = first hitch in that particular country): * [[Germany]], [[Switzerland]], [[Liechtenstein]], [[Italy]], [[Netherlands]] (2006)* [[Austria]], [[Slovenia]], [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]], [[Hungary]], [[Denmark]] (2007)* [[Poland]], [[Romania]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Belgium]] (2008)* [[Czech Republic]], [[Lithuania]], [[Latvia]], [[Russia]], [[Ukraine]], [[Moldova]] (2009)* [[France]], [[Spain]], [[Portugal]], [[Morocco]], [[Western Sahara]] (2010)* [[Abkhazia]] (2011)* [[HörstelLuxemburg]] (near 2012)* [[Uruguay]], [[OsnabrückArgentina]] in the West of Germany. He tries helping to make the hitchwiki a great success. He is currently studying and living in , [[EnschedeBrazil]] in the (2013)* [[NetherlandsChile]] while speaking German, Dutch and English daily more or less fluent. During the semester he is hitchhiking the route [[EnschedePeru]] (2014)* [[Slovakia]] to , [[HörstelMexico]] nearly every weekend there and back.(2015)==Hitchhiking==* [[Belize]] (2016)Platschi currently visited the following countries while hitchhiking:* [[Costa Rica]], [[Colombia]] (2017)

=== Planned trips (2022+) ===* [[GermanyPamir Highway]], / [[SwitzerlandCentral Asia]]* The Far East of Russia: Yakutia, [[Liechtenstein]]Tuva, [[Italy]]Sakhalin, [[Netherlands]] (2006)etc.* Moon

=== Statistics ===* Failed country: Tried to hitchhike in [[AustriaBolivia]]in July 2014, giving up after realizing that traffic that day did not exist (and it was freaking cold)* Coldest position: On December 16, 2009 waited about 8 hours on the [[Latvia]]n - [[SloveniaRussia]]n border at night at temperatures of about -30 °C. Pure fun! Realized only in the morning hours that traffic would only move after sunrise.*The longest ride ever: 1443 km, [[Croatiaпыша]], to [[Serbiaновосибирск]], [[BulgariaRussia]], 50 hours, one truck.*The fastest ride ever was together with [[TurkeyUser:MrTweek|MrTweek]], hitchhiking from [[HungaryFreiburg]], towards [[DenmarkHannover]] , got a driver inbetween who was riding ''260 km/h'' on the German [[A7 (2007Germany)|A7]] highway.==Planned trips==*The milestone of 25,000 km hitchhiking was reached on May 10, 2008 hitchhiking from [[Hörstel|Riesenbeck-Birgte]] towards [[Münster]] in a Smart Cabriolet. Amazing!*The milestone of 50,000 km hitchhiking was reached on April 29, 2009 hitchhiking from [[SyriaHannover]], towards [[IranBad Oeynhausen]] .*The milestone of 100,000 km hitchhiking was reached somewhere in August 2010 on the road between Faro (Portugal) and Sevilla (2008Spain)hitchhiking with a Portuguese-Angolan lady.==Statistics==In this '''*The milestone of 150,000 km hitchhiking was reached somewhere between [[La Pedrera]] and [[Rocha]] on 25 January 2015 in Uruguay, together on the road with [[User:platschi/logKorn|logbookKorn]]''' you can find some hitchhiking statistics from platschiafter an absence of way too long on the road.

Since May 2006 he hitchhiked in total '''18.653 around 154,996 km''' through [[Europe]]. , [[Asia]], [[Africa]] and [[South America]] (Sep 27th, 20079/2015). A more or less complete record of his trips can be found on [http://www.hitchlog.com/en/hitchhikers/platschi hitchlog].