User:Prino

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Robert "prino" Prins is a 52-year old hitchhiking grandfather of three, born in the Netherlands, but now living in Oostende in Belgium.

His recorded hitchhiking career started on 16 June 1980 at 7:47 and as of 22 March 2013 at 17:50 he has hitched 356,120.9 km in the following 33 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, Slovenia and Andorra.

He has also been to the USA on two occasions, visiting Austin and New York, but he has not done any hitchhiking during those visits.

See details on his log of hitching trips or a map.

He's fluent in Dutch and English, more than capable of speaking German and knows enough French to survive when dropped in the middle of nowhere in France.

Some personal hitch-hike records/statistics

Famous for 15 minutes...
  • Career distance: 356,120.9 km (as of 2013-03-22T17:50)
  • 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 (average speed!), 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: 3,076.7 km in 24:16 hours (actual driving time), from Oostende (Belgium) (2010-11-22T06:56) via Germany back to Oostende (2010-11-25T06:19).
  • Exceed one Light-second: On 2011-02-02T10:47 his recorded hitchhiking distance exceeded 299.792.5 km. It takes light one second to travel this distance, it took Prino, give or take a few leap-seconds, 966,673,380 times longer.
  • Best Vilniaus Autostopo Klubas traveler (distance-wise) for the club years of 2001/2, 2007/8 and 2011/12.

Projects

On the web

Prino's Blog

Mentioned in a Master's Thesis

On Live on the road’s Videos on Vimeo

On the website of the Vilniaus Autostopo Klubas

On Bernd Wechner's mirror of Suite 101

Daily life

In his daily life he is an analyst programmer with more than 27 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 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 comp.lang.pascal.borland Usenet newsgroup.

He is currently unemployed. A CV is available on request.

Trivia

The origins of "prino"?

The name "prino" 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

  • email: robert(a)prino(d)org
  • Skype: prinox (or sometimes madtruffi)
  • JustVoip: madtruffi
  • BeWelcome: prino
  • Hospitality Club: prino
  • CouchSurfing: prino
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