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Hi there, my name is Gerben. I'm a Dutch student in civil engineering. I'm on the road quite a lot, and mostly hitchhiking. Apart from the obvious fact that it saves travelcosts, everytime I'm home for a while I get this weird feeling. I just want to hitchhike somewhere. So I usually do:)
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About time I start contributing a bit more to this site.
I hitchhike for fun, and sometimes really just because it saves money. This only happens on short distances though. I hitchhike through the Netherlands quite often, and make trips from here to all kinds of places. Hope to make it into Asia one day. Got as far as St.Petersburg and Moscow so far in that direction.
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I'm not so much into statistics, although I like to keep my notebooks with all my signs as souvenirs:) And ofcourse some extremes are nice to remember, such as my ride at 260km/h around Berlin, and a 2 day ride with a Polish trucker, or hitchhiking in total darkness in the Highlands of Scotland.
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Until 31/12/10 I can host you in Utrecht if you pass by.
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Gerben is a Dutch student, formerly in Delft doing civil engineering, but has now almost finished his degree in liberal arts and sciences in Utrecht, where he has lived for the past three years. He first started hitchhiking on Queensday 2006, and got picked up by a Brazilian air acrobat who told him she always picked up hitchhikers when she saw them. Going only from Delft to Amsterdam that day, he decided that it must be possible to go further as well. So far, he has hitchhiked criss cross through Europe in all directions, and has made several bigger trips: in 2008 he hitchhiked from NL to Russia and back, while in 2009 he hitchhiked from NL to China, passing Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia en route. In the summer of 2010 he hitchhiked from Egypt to Kenya, passing Sudan and Ethiopia on the way.
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Currently, he is planning his first Atlantic crossing by boat after his graduation in December.  
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I'll add some more info later. My hc and cs username is the same: gerbennap
 
I'll add some more info later. My hc and cs username is the same: gerbennap

Revision as of 00:16, 8 November 2010

About time I start contributing a bit more to this site.

Until 31/12/10 I can host you in Utrecht if you pass by.

Gerben is a Dutch student, formerly in Delft doing civil engineering, but has now almost finished his degree in liberal arts and sciences in Utrecht, where he has lived for the past three years. He first started hitchhiking on Queensday 2006, and got picked up by a Brazilian air acrobat who told him she always picked up hitchhikers when she saw them. Going only from Delft to Amsterdam that day, he decided that it must be possible to go further as well. So far, he has hitchhiked criss cross through Europe in all directions, and has made several bigger trips: in 2008 he hitchhiked from NL to Russia and back, while in 2009 he hitchhiked from NL to China, passing Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia en route. In the summer of 2010 he hitchhiked from Egypt to Kenya, passing Sudan and Ethiopia on the way. Currently, he is planning his first Atlantic crossing by boat after his graduation in December.


I'll add some more info later. My hc and cs username is the same: gerbennap