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I am a hitchhiker, lazy student, social worker, noisy beer drinker and sometimes annoying blabbermouth and can enoy you in German, English, and more or less in French and Russian. | I am a hitchhiker, lazy student, social worker, noisy beer drinker and sometimes annoying blabbermouth and can enoy you in German, English, and more or less in French and Russian. |
Revision as of 18:02, 15 September 2009
I am a hitchhiker, lazy student, social worker, noisy beer drinker and sometimes annoying blabbermouth and can enoy you in German, English, and more or less in French and Russian.
Hitchhiking
After several year of Groundhopping and train travelling, I found out at the age of 20 that hitchhiking is just the best way to get arround and gives the best balance between adventure, cheap travelling and reliability. Till today, I hitchhiked more than 80.000 kilometers.
Countries
Apart from other countries, where I used other forms of transport, I hitchhiked in: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Faroe Islands, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Transnistria, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, India, Turkey, Oman, UAE, Cyprus, Greece
Planed trips
Scandinavia in winter
Hitching throug the whole American continent one day
Statistics
Since may 2008
Time total: 994 hours Distance total: 43.992 km Lifts: 362 Average distance per lift: 121,3 km Average speed: 44,25 km/h
Records
Lonest lift (distance): Loukhi (North-west Russia) - Novgorod (1200 km)
Longest lift (time): 3 days with a geological expedition in Yakutia
Longest waiting time: 18 hours without passing cars in Raswilka, northeast Siberia
Longest non stop hitching: Kellmünz - Utsjoki (3.300 km) in 79 hours
Maximum speed: more than 260 km/h during a race against another car between Dubai and al-Ain in 2006
Minimum speed: 6 hours at 35 km/h in an indian truck between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.