User:Quarim

About

Quarim is a 29 years old hitchhiker from Trier, Germany . He has hitchhiked in 20 countries in Europe but most of the way he did in Germany. Right now he stucks in his office at work and does most of the hitchhiking trips only in his head. In real he did a bit more than 30,000 km by hitchhiking. See his logfile of hitchhiking for more statistics

Quarim can communicate in german and english and also can make himself understandable in french and spanish, gaved up to learn russian.

Tasks

He was one of the organisators of the abgefahren hitchhiking race 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. He works for abgefahren e.V.

Contact

• blackbug<at>gmx<dot>de

Statistics

Total hitchhiking distance: 30,644.9 km

Longest waits :

• 3h30 min and then gave up - Raststätte Feistritz, Austria heading towards Slovenia
• 3h02 min and then gave up - Raststätte Göttesbrunn, Austria heading towards Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2h53 min near Praha, Czech Republic
• 2h45 min near Hildesheim, Germany

Shortest wait: no waiting time - only switching cars (more than 10 times)

Longest Lift: from somewhere on the motorway in Serbia to Vienna in Austria (over 600km)

Longest distance in 24h: from Rasthof Elztal to Berlin via Bielefeld (662 km)

Top speed: up to 260 km/h on the german A7 from Hannover to Hamburg (Mercedes Benz SL 55 AMG)

Coldest Temperature hitchhiked: - 8°C at Dec 17th 2009 in Trier

Hottest Temperature hitchhiked: + 35.7°C at August 12th 2009 in Nazaré, Portugal

Highest altitude hitchhiked: 2,106m Gotthard Pass, Switzerland in June 2011

Milestone of 25,000 km: Hitchhiked on 27th August 2010 between Osnabrück and Hannover, on that day they had a disaster alert in Osnabrück because of heavy rain and flooding. It was also the craziest weather Quarim hitchhiked in.

Pictures

In Dubrovnik, Croatia, may 2008

File:Quarim brandenburg.JPG Hitching minor roads in Brandenburg 2010

Hitching a forbidden spot in Italy, june 2009.