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=='''NOW'''==
As of mid October 2008 I have been hitch hiking east from Rome. Started with my younger sister and went Italy-Slovenia-Croatia-Bosnia-Montengro-Kosovo-Macedonia-Greece-Turkey.
Sister went home. Kept going solo.
Turkey-Syria-Turkey-Northern Iraq-Turkey-Georgia-Azerbaijan
FERRY! cheated :(
Kazakhstan-China (to Shanghai and then back through Tibetan areas)-Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan-Uzbekistan-Afghanistan CHEATED flew Kabul-Peshawar - Pakistan-India-Nepal-India
FLEW KOLKATA-BANGKOK :(
Hitched Bangkok-Singapore. Met mother...
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==Hitching Experience==
'''Big Trips'''
Trip pace varied between extremely fast paced (1000km a day) to very slow paced, stopping in places for up to a week.
''Europe-Australia overland'' : Still in the process of doing it, see belowOctober 2008 - May 2011. <!-- I posted about hh in Central asia in the following thread:http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=12&post=5161263C$ tread might be available, but not here ~~~~ --> ''around australia 2011'': hitched around Australia again in 2011 ''Indonesia'': Went to a wedding and hitched from Bali to Jakarta
'''Small Trips'''
==Statistics==
Boat hitching: 40km around Singapore. 280km from Kos to Crete. more to come!
Only done km stats on my big trips:<br>
Australia - 21 832km (according to google maps)<br>
Europe 2008 (Switzerland to Norway to Vienna) - 6978km (according to google maps)<br>
Australia 2011 - 18 784km<br>->Around Darwin 100km<br>->Darwin-Katherine 450km<br>->Darwin->Canberra (Via Bourke, Tamworth, Dubbo) - 4575km<br>->Canberra->Darwin (Via Oodanatta track) - 4288km<br>->Perth->Uluru (Via Great Central Road)->Port Augustus->Broken Hill->West Wylong->Canberra 4722km <br>->Canberra->South Coast NSW-> Pt. Augusta->Esperance->Perth 4649km<br>Indonesia 2011: Bali->Jakarta through mtns: 1448km<br>Europe 2011: Athens->Belgrade: 1130km<br>Europe 2012: 38,361km<br>->Belgrade-Berlin-Belgrade: 3202km<br>->Belgrade->Timisoara->Cluj->Reghin->Suceava->Brasov->Sibiu->Hunedoara->Belgrade: 1783km<br>->Belgrade->Nis->Sofia->Belgrade: 800km<br>->Belgrade->Tulza->Sarajvo->Split->Zadar->Zagreb->Belgrade->Sofia: 1790km<br>->Sofia->Plovdiv Return: 294km<br>->Sofia->Belgrade->Oradea->Ruzomberok->Brno->Munster->Lyon (including getting lost): 3376km<br>->Lyon->Antwerp->Paris->Auch: 1862km <br>->Cape Finisterra->Porto->Talvira->Vigo->Gijon->Santandar->Barcelona: 3155km<br>->Barcelona->Avila->Toulous->Auch->Biscarosse-Plage->Brussels->Osnabruck->Berlin (+side trips): 4150km<br>->Berlin->Warsaw->Vilnius (including getting lost): 1300km<br>->Vilnius->Ambrasikiai->Vilnius->Warsaw->Krakow->Lukovista->Ruzomberok->Arad->(lost in Romanian mountains)->Sibiu->Zemica->Blagovegrad: 2952km<br>->Blagovegrad->Tserovo->Blagovegrad->Sofia->Belgrade: 800km (including local hitching between Tserovo and Svogue)<br>->Belgrade->Oradea->Cluj->Iasi->Chisinau->Soroca->Tiraspol->Odessa->Kyiv :2103km (plus local Transnistrian hitching)<br>Kyiv->Mikolaiv->Djankoi->Kerch->Simferopol->Yalta->Bakhchisaray->Odessa->Cahul->Cluj (not direct routes): 2891km<br>Cluj->Brasov->Bucarest->Istanbul: 1172km<br>Istanbul->Iznik->Bodrum: 826km<br>Crete: Chania->Sitia: 270km <br>Rhodos: 320km<br>Marmaris->Izmir->Konya->Kayseri->Cappadocia->Kayseri->Eskişehir->Izmit: 2069km<br> Izmit->Kutahya->Usak->Antalya->Ankara (got lost too): 1467km<br>Ankara->Avanos->Ihlara->Anamur->Antalya->Butterfly Valley-> Izmır: 1779km <br><b>2013</b><br>Izmir->Mersin->Iskenderun: 1125km<br>ferry to egypt...<br>Port Said->Taba->Saint Catherines->Suez->Cairo: 1066km<br> Total: = 40 068 km102,928km<br>
<b>Europe to Australia Overland</b><br>
Kurdistan Border - around eastern Turkey - Georgian border - 3,900 km <br>
Georgia - not in total <br>
Azerbaijan - not in total 800km <br>
Kazakhstan - 5881km (approximately according to google maps) <br>
China - July/Aug 2009 hitched approximately 11,500 km from Kaz border to shanghai and back to Kyrgz border<br>
Nepal - April-July 2010 - not calculted<br>
India - July- ? 2010 - Nepal border to Kailashahar, Tripura, around NE to Kolkata, across to agra, north to Leh, Kashmir to Golden Temple to Delhi to Kanyakumari to Kochi. Then to Munnar->Bangalore->Hyderabad->Mumbai->Surat->Ahmedabad->Kharan 14,943km<br>
Bangkok to Singapore - 1838km<br>Singapore->Laos - 6227<br>Laos - not in total<br>Cambodia - 1520km<br>Cambodia->Bangkok->Singapore - 3024km <br>
Overland total: =6273,195km 766km *Syria, Nepal, Georgia , and Azerbaijan Laos is missing from total<br>
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<b>Grand TOTAL = at least 102176,263 694km km (according to google maps)</b><br>
not in total - hitched sections of my trip in Africa: South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Malawi.
Walk out the highway, put your hand in the air...see where the road takes you :) Surrender to the journey as much as possible!
