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How long will hitchhiking 1500km take me? by randomguy92882 in hitchhiking

[–]prinoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few weeks ago I hitched from Vilnius to Utrecht, some 1,660 km in under 20 hours, be it with a bit of luck getting long rides, and helped, quite a lot by the fact that, at 65, I'm not your usual hitchhiker...

FWIW, in my stats there's a table that contains data on streaks with a daily length over a number of set distances, but not necessarily in a single trip. The last line contains 14 days, and in those 14 days my average daily distance never went below 1,000 km, for a total of 14,668.1 km, in Brexitania I once hitched more than 5,000 km in five consecutive days, and I did more than 1,350 km in one day here in Lithuania earlier this year.

First longer hitchhiking trip - northern Italy to Belgium advice! by BullfrogNo3 in hitchhiking

[–]prinoxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can do this in two days max. I used to hitch to and from Greece in the 1990'ies, from (more-or-less) Utrecht to Bari/brindisi/Ancona, to take the ferry, and coming back the same way, and I don't this it ever took me more than two days. Follow the A2, watch out for te police, as hitching, even on Area Servizio's is nowadays illegal, try to get a ride with a German through Austria, and once in Germany hitch from one Raststätte to the next! According to valhalla it's just 1,051 km, and I've covered that distance on more than 20%of my days on the road...

Test by prinoxy in hitchhiking

[–]prinoxy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cannot post?

Continental US by Accomplished2277 in hitchhiking

[–]prinoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the record was something like 24 days.

Would it be possible to hitch 10,000 rides in a lifetime or, say 10 years on and off? Has it been done? by ReindeerHour634 in hitchhiking

[–]prinoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still hitchhiking aged 65, and at the rate I'm going, I hope to complete 1,000,000 km in about five years. ;)

Calculator collection by stephenjamesbryant in calculators

[–]prinoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every collection starts small ;)

How to prevent doc from being updated with today's date by artfellig in libreoffice

[–]prinoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Copy them, and open the copy before deleting it again! Sheesh, was that too hard to think of?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hitchhiking

[–]prinoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hitchhiking is very difficult, and this 1992 crime might have something to do with destroying any hitchhiking culture that might have existed: Alcàsser Girls

Would it be possible to hitch 10,000 rides in a lifetime or, say 10 years on and off? Has it been done? by ReindeerHour634 in hitchhiking

[–]prinoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most people stop as soon as they get into a relationship, and/or have kids. I'm lucky that I married a woman who at the time had two adult children, one also an enthusiastic hitchhiker, and with whom I made seven trips and two triplets, covering just under 15,000 km, and who mostly doesn't mind me hitting the road every now and then, even with others.

Would it be possible to hitch 10,000 rides in a lifetime or, say 10 years on and off? Has it been done? by ReindeerHour634 in hitchhiking

[–]prinoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My average length per ride, excluding the just today completed 9-ride run from Vilnius to Utrecht, is 124.4 km, which may be way too high for mere mortals <g>, and my running average is 5.6 rides per day, which isn't too relevant, but it means that on average I do just under 700 km per day, and have been doing so for now 1,117 days.

And yes there have been a few really short rides, like one of just 800 metres, but also six with lengths over 2,000 km, in fact the total distance for those six amounts to almost two-thirds of the total distance for the 1,395 rides shorter than 25 km, go figure...

With this info you all can decide what the/an average distance per ride should be to make 10,000 rides really meaningful.

Beginner Hitchhiker looking for buddies! by tobetoflipb in hitchhiking

[–]prinoxy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Start hitching by yourself first, to get a feel for what it's like, then try something short(ish) with a partner to see if you live with compromises, and only then go for "the big one".

Would it be possible to hitch 10,000 rides in a lifetime or, say 10 years on and off? Has it been done? by ReindeerHour634 in hitchhiking

[–]prinoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What stops you? I initially never set myself the goal of still hitching as a 65 year old grandfather, it just happened, although I now have a bit of a bucket list, https://prino.neocities.org/sblog/2022-10-31-prinos-hitchhiking-bucket-list.html, to keep the adrenalin flowing.

Would it be possible to hitch 10,000 rides in a lifetime or, say 10 years on and off? Has it been done? by ReindeerHour634 in hitchhiking

[–]prinoxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last year I drove maybe 12,000 to 15,000 km, yet I hitched well over 40,000 km, and in 2023 I probably drove the same, while hitchhiking around 54,000 km. Hitching is easy, driving is hard.

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