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=='''Since I hit the road...'''==
After university finished I hitched around Australia for 7 months, went back to Canada for a bit and then went to NY, through East Africa and arrived in Switzerland in Aug.2008.
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. Hitched for a month with my dad. 20,000km around India....
FLEW KOLKATA-BANGKOK :(
Hitched Bangkok-Singapore. Met mother...
Hitched back to Bangkok with Mom, went through Laos and Cambodia and south to Singapore, flew into Darwin, stuck around for a month, hitched down to Canberra...
Went to a wedding in Indonesia
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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'' : October 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
==Statistics==
Boat hitching: 40km around Singapore. 280km from Kos to Crete. more to come!
Only done km stats on my big trips:<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
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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: = 61 380 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>
Cambodia->Bangkok->Singapore - 3024km <br>
Overland total: =7273,966km 766km *Syria, Nepal, Georgia, and Laos and Azerbaijan is missing from total<br>
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<b>Grand TOTAL = at least 134176,296 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!
