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== About ==
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[https://prino.neocities.org Prino]
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Robert "<span style="color:blue">prino</span>" Prins is a 49-year old hitchhiking grandfather of two, born in the [[Netherlands]], but now living in [[Oostende]] in [[Belgium]].
 
 
 
His <span style="color:blue">'''recorded'''</span> hitchhiking career started on 16 June 1980 at 7:47 and as of 9 August 2009 he has hitched 272,663.1 km in the following 32 countries:
 
 
 
[[Netherlands]], [[Germany]], [[Denmark]], [[Sweden]], [[Norway]], [[Finland]], [[France]], [[Austria]], [[Yugoslavia]], [[Greece]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]], [[Belgium]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Italy]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Poland]], [[Lithuania]], [[Latvia]], [[Estonia]], [[Liechtenstein]], [[Switzerland]], [[Ireland]], [[Japan]], [[San Marino]], [[Portugal]], [[Spain]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Croatia]] and [[Slovenia]].
 
 
 
He has also been to the [[United States of America|USA]] twice, visiting [[Austin]] and [[New York]], but he has not done any hitchhiking during those visits.
 
 
 
See details on his [[User:prino/log|log of hitching trips]] or a [[User:prino/map|map]].
 
 
 
He's fluent in Dutch and English, more than capable of speaking German and knows enough of French to survive when dropped in the middle of nowhere in France.
 
 
 
== Personal hitch-hike records/statistics ==
 
[[Image:prino-guinness.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Whoopie!]]
 
* '''Career distance:''' 272,663.1 km (as of 2009-08-09T21:46)
 
* '''Best 24 hour:''' 2,318.4 km, from Southern Yugoslavia (1989-07-05T00:00) to just before Raststätte Hamburg-Stillhorn (Germany) (1989-07-05T24:00). This record can be found on page 179 of the 1991 UK edition of the Guinness Book of Records.
 
* '''Longest ride:''' 2,502.9 km, from [[Platamon]] (Greece) (1990-08-13T16:32) to [[Driebergen]] (Netherlands) (1990-08-15T12:54).
 
* '''Fastest ride:''' 181.9 km/h (<span style="color:blue">''average speed!''</span>), from Raststätte Wildeshausen (Germany) (2002-05-01T03.28) to Raststätte Grundbergsee (2002-05-01T03:47). There have been a multitude of rides where the highest speed has exceeded this value, with speeds up to around 255 km/h!
 
* '''Fastest trip:''' 1,796.9 km in 15:01 hours (<span style="color:blue">''actual driving time''</span>), from [[Oostende]] (Belgium) (2009-02-02T08:00) via the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg back to Oostende (2009-02-04T16:05).
 
* Best [http://www.autostop.lt/ '''Vilniaus Autostopo Klubas'''] traveller (distance-wise) for the club years of 2001/2 and 2007/8.
 
 
 
== Projects ==
 
* He is the author of a [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hitching/files/Robert%27s%20programs/ set of programs] to extract various statistics from notes made while hitchhiking.
 
 
 
== On the web ==
 
 
 
===='''Mentioned in a Master's Thesis'''====
 
 
 
[http://membres.lycos.fr/bpierret/memoire/memoire.html Auto-stop Approche géographique (Sylvain Viard, 1999)]
 
 
 
===='''On [http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/ Abgefahren e.V.]'''====
 
 
 
[http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/DE/blogs/prino/20081022/a-trip-denmark-and-liechtenstein-way-back-2000 A trip to Denmark and Liechtenstein (in 2000)]<br />
 
[http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/DE/blogs/prino/20080830/records-are-there-be-broken Records are there to be broken]<br />
 
[http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/DE/blogs/prino/20080805/a-quick-trip-through-eight-countries A quick trip through eight countries]<br />
 
[http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/DE/blogs/prino/20080515/oostende-b-de-bilt-nl-and-back Oostende to De Bilt and back]
 
 
 
===='''On the website of the [http://www.autostop.lt/ Vilniaus Autostopo Klubas]'''====
 
 
 
[http://www.autostop.lt/stories/2000prins.html Back home from the 4th IHHC]
 
 
 
===='''On [http://www.suite101.com/ Suite 101]'''====
 
 
 
[http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/hitch_hiking/11729 Thumbing Around: Robert Prins Writes]
 
 
 
===='''On [http://bernd.wechner.info/ Bernd Wechner's mirror of Suite 101]'''====
 
 
 
[http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?31 Thumbing Around: Robert Prins Writes]
 
 
 
===='''On [http://www.digihitch.com/ Digihitch]'''====
 
 
 
[http://www.digihitch.com/road-culture/hitchhikers-modern/996 Robert Prins (minuscule bio)]
 
 
 
== Random ==
 
The origins of "<span style="color:blue">'''prino'''</span>"?
 
 
 
The name "<span style="color:blue">prino</span>" was "given" to him in 1974 by his chemistry teacher, Eelco Hessling. When going through the names in his teachers notebook, he could not read his own handwriting, called "Robert Prins" "Robert Prino". The name was taken over by a few of his classmates and has stuck ever since.
 
 
 
== Contact ==
 
* Skype: madtruffi (or sometimes prinox)
 
* JustVoip: madtruffi
 
* HC/CS: prino
 
* email: robert.ah.prins(a)gmail(d)com
 
 
 
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