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Robert "<strong>prino</strong>" Prins is a 53-year old hitchhiking grandfather of three, born in the [[Netherlands]], but now living in [[Oostende]] in [[Belgium]].
His <strong>recorded</strong> hitchhiking career started on 16 June 1980 at 7:47 and as of 10 November 5 December 2013 at 1214:58 10 he has hitched 376379,710411.1 4 km in the following 33 countries:
[[Netherlands]], [[Germany]], [[Denmark]], [[Sweden]], [[Norway]], [[Finland]], [[France]], [[Austria]], [[Yugoslavia]], [[Greece]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]], [[Belgium]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Italy]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Poland]], [[Lithuania]], [[Latvia]], [[Estonia]], [[Liechtenstein]], [[Switzerland]], [[Ireland]], [[Japan]], [[San Marino]], [[Portugal]], [[Spain]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Croatia]], [[Slovenia]] and [[Andorra]].
[[Image:prino-guinness.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Famous for 15 minutes...]]
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<li><strong>Career distance:</strong> 376379,710411.1 4 km (as of 2013-1112-10T1205T14:5810)</li>
<li><strong>Best 24 hour:</strong> 2,318.4 km, from Southern Yugoslavia (1989-07-05T00:00) to just before Raststätte Hamburg-Stillhorn (Germany) (1989-07-05T24:00). This record can be found on page 179 of the 1991 UK edition of the Guinness Book of Records, see the link from [[Hitchhiking World Records]] for full [[Prino%27s_24-hour_record|details]].</li>
<li><strong>Longest ride:</strong> 2,502.9 km, from [[Platamon]] (Greece) (1990-08-13T16:32) to [[Driebergen]] (Netherlands) (1990-08-15T12:54).</li>
<li><strong>Fastest ride:</strong> 190.2 km/h (<em>average speed!</em>), from Raststätte Aurach (Germany) (2010-06-14T20:06) to Raststätte In der Holledau (2010-06-14T20:50). There have been a multitude of rides where the highest speed has exceeded this value, with speeds up to around 255 km/h!</li>
<li><strong>Fastest trip:</strong> 32,076701.7 3 km in 2420:16 57 hours (<em>actual driving time</em>), from Oostende (Belgium) (20102013-1112-22T0603T06:5657) via Germany back to Oostende Brussel (20102013-1112-25T0605T14:1910).</li>
<li><strong>Exceed one [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-second Light-second]:</strong> On 2011-02-02T10:47 his <em>recorded</em> hitchhiking distance exceeded 299.792.5 km. It takes light one second to travel this distance, it took Prino, give or take a few <!-- 15? --> leap-seconds, 966,673,380 times longer.</li>
<li>Best [http://web.archive.org/web/20130404025814/http://www.autostop.lt/ '''Vilniaus Autostopo Klubas'''] traveler (distance-wise) for the club years of 2001/2, 2007/8 and , 2011/12and 2012/13.</li>
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