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[[Image:yemen.jpg|thumb|240px|Waiting for a lift in Eastern [[Yemen]]: mind the camels.]] [[Image:Oman.JPG|thumb|240px|Hitching in [[Oman]] towards [[UAE]].]] [[Image:Iran.JPG|thumb|240px|Waiting for a ride in [[Iran]].]] [[Image:Erzurum.JPG|thumb|240px|Winter in Eastern [[Turkey]].]] [[Image:Truck and rakia.jpg|thumb|240px|Some Rakia with a truck driver in the middle of the night in the middle of [[Turkey]] - trying out myself why there are wise rules about no-[[drinking]] while hitchhikinghitch-hiking...]]
Here is part of my hitch -hiking bio and show off... ;)
* I started hitch hiking some years back in South Africa. Since then I hitch hike every year more than what the average person travels with their own car, train and maybe plane together. Lately, I hitchhiked back to Europe from Yemen.
* I see hitchhiking as a normal, even though special, means of transport. I do appreciate the personal and, --on a bigger scale, -- the cultural exchange and empowerment level perspective of hitch -hiking. Most of the times time, I try to put hitch -hiking in a big and interconnected picture.
* I do highly appreciate the diversity of hitch -hiking.
* I am a fan of hitch -hiking techniques, the psychology of hitchhiking and scientific views on hitchhiking, ; but also the ''hitch -hiking flow'' and ''hitch -hiking as meditation''.
* I do appreciate (and , stimulate) and I am active for the exchange of information and cooperation within and to the outside of the hitchhiking community. Further, I am active for the sustainability of hitch hiking related activities and projects.
* I pushed the establishment of and (co)founded [[abgefahren e.V.]], the German Hitchhiking Society in order, a.o., to facilitate more sustainability in the (German) hitch -hiking scene.
* I work push on making hitch -hiking mainstream. Concrete project plans range from holding a hitch -hiking congress, over organizing a Youth Exchange on European level (European Mobility aspect), to give a helping hand in order to get finally the Global Autostop Race realised.
