User:Platschi

platschi hitchhiking in Turkey

platschi hitchhiking in Serbia

About

Platschi is a hitchhiker located in Uruguay. From time to time you can read about his hitchhiking trips at this blog (German) or (English). A more or less complete statistical record of his trips can be found on hitchlog.

Contact

For contact information, have a look here.

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)
• Luxemburg (2012)
• Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil (2013)

Planned trips

• Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Chile, Peru (2014)
• Pamir Highway / Central Asia (2016+)
• Moon (2017+)

Statistics

• The longest ride ever: 1443 km, пыша to новосибирск, Russia, 50 hours, one truck.
• The fastest ride ever was together with MrTweek hitchhiking from Freiburg towards Hannover, got a driver inbetween who was riding 260 km/h on the German A7 highway.
• The milestone of 25,000 km hitchhiking was reached on May 10, 2008 hitchhiking from Riesenbeck-Birgte towards Münster in a Smart Cabriolet. Amazing!
• The milestone of 50,000 km hitchhiking was reached on April 29, 2009 hitchhiking from Hannover towards Bad Oeynhausen.
• The milestone of 100,000 km hitchhiking was reached somewhere in August 2010 on the road between Faro (Portugal) and Sevilla (Spain) hitchhiking with a Portuguese-Angolan lady.
• In this [1] you can find the hitchhiking statistics from platschi.

Since May 2006 he hitchhiked in total around 144,620 km through Europe, Asia, Africa and South America (6/2014). A more or less complete record of his trips can be found on hitchlog.

• Old log: User:Platschi/log