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== About ==
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Robert "<!-- span style="color:blue"-->'''prino'''<!-- /span-->" Prins is a 50-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 15 August 2010 he has hitched 288,140.9 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]].
* '''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, see the link from [[Hitchhiking World Records]] for full details.
* '''Longest ride:''' 2,502.9 km, from [[Platamon]] (Greece) (1990-08-13T16:32) to [[Driebergen]] (Netherlands) (1990-08-15T12:54).
* '''Fastest ride:''' 190.2 km/h (<!-- span style="color:blue"-->''average speed!''<!-- /span-->), from Raststätte Aurach (Germany) (2010-06-14T20:06) to Raststätte In der Holledau (2010-06-14T20:50). 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:''' 2,422.0 km in 19:43 hours (<!-- span style="color:blue"-->''actual driving time''<!-- /span-->), from [[Oostende]] (Belgium) (2010-06-14T05:49) via Germany ([[München]](ish)/[[Berlin]](ish)) back to [[Oostende]] (Belgium) (2010-06-16T10:06).
* Best [http://www.autostop.lt/ '''Vilniaus Autostopo Klubas'''] traveller (distance-wise) for the club years of 2001/2 and 2007/8.
== Daily life ==
In his daily life he is an analyst programmer with nearly more than 25 years of experience in PL/I and somewhat less in DB2, CICS, REXX and IDMS. He is the author and maintainer of a set of [http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT769.zip REXX execs] that can be used to convert legacy languages into HTML. He is also, since February 2003, the maintainer of the mini-FAQ for the [news://comp.lang.pascal.borland comp.lang.pascal.borland] Usenet newsgroup.
He's currently unemployed. A CV is available on request.
== Trivia ==
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.
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