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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>
->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: = 84102,092 km928km<br>
<b>Europe to Australia Overland</b><br>
Cambodia->Bangkok->Singapore - 3024km <br>
Overland total: =73,766km *Syria, Nepal, Georgia, and Laos is missing from total<br>
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<b>Grand TOTAL = at least 157176,858 694km km(according to google maps)</b><br>
not in total - hitched sections of my trip in Africa: South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Malawi.