Hi Alex und alle. The 27.500 was on 01.01.2007. I update this specific graph once a year, after I split the lenght of rides crossing borders over two countries. I do this once a year (last year was the first time actually). I have hitchhiked 6,5 kilometer in Lithuania without a ride, because I got this ride just before the border. Therefore this 7 km ride is devided over Poland (0,5 km) and Lithuania (6,5 km) and Poland gets one more ride. Soon I'll update the full list with my hitches from July-September 2007, which should be about 3000 km. 27.500 has gone to about 35.700 km so far this year. This means that I am still behind the total of Jochem Lesparre from the Netherlands, but not that much. Here is a full list of Jochem: http://www.jochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl/liftlijst.htm.

Jochem is Dutch but seems to like Germans when analyzing his list: over 15.000 km in Germany he hitched, and "only" 11.000 in the Netherlands.

However, for the Netherlands I already beat him, because I did close to 13.000 km in my country on thumb. Coming weekend I'll do another 250 km here.

My number of rides is now closing in 700. New in the list this year will be Slovakia, where I got through last weekend. It will be listed as one ride, total kilometers about 200, and average length 200 km... So Slovakia will beat Germany in this sense... Total wait of 30 minutes, which makes about 10 seconds per kilometer, by which Slovakia is the best hh country for me so far... Germany, Holland and Belgium are all around 25-35 seconds per kilometer...

Oh, and waiting time this year was a bit lower than last, while the share of rides with another hitchhiker increased, by heart, from about 15-20% to about 25-35%. And those hitching partners this year were foremost males...

I'm also curious for ridelists of others. Just found the ones of Platschi and Mr Tweek on their Hitchwiki logs. Who has more... more... more...