Difference between revisions of "User:Alex"

From Hitchwiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Line 1: Line 1:
[[Image:yemen.jpg|thumb|240px|Waiting for a lift in Eastern [[Yemen]].]] [[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 hitchhiking...]]
+
[[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 hitchhiking...]]
  
 
Here is part of my hitch hiking bio and show off... ;)
 
Here is part of my hitch hiking bio and show off... ;)

Revision as of 17:12, 3 March 2009

Waiting for a lift in Eastern Yemen: mind the camels.
Hitching in Oman towards UAE.
Waiting for a ride in Iran.
Winter in Eastern Turkey.
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 hitchhiking...

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, mean of transport. I do appreciate the personal and, on a bigger scale, the cultural exchange and empowerment level of hitch hiking. Most of the times 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.
  • I do appreciate (and stimulate) and I 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 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.