User:Guaka
guaka, or Kasper Souren, is administrator of this wiki. He moved the wiki from hitchhikingguide.org to Wikia, since over there it was being spammed all the time. And then, on November 24 2006, to hitchwiki.org, together with MrTweek.
He was born in Nuth, Netherlands, but lived in Paris, Mali, hitchhiked through Europe and South America for a long time, and worked a bit in Lima, Peru; then met the lovely amylin in Montreal, and hitchhiked with her in Quebec, the United States, New Zealand, Australia, from Thailand to Hong Kong and in Europe. Lived in Trento, Italy since July 2007, and as of January 2008 in Amsterdam.
Guaka is or has been also active on many Wikipedias (he founded the Bambara and the Fulfulde Wikipedia) and on Wikitravel. And he has worked on many online projects, but Hitchwiki.org is definitely his favorite, because of:
- the free license,
- the convivial atmosphere,
- the ideal mix between ad-hoc and democratic decisions,
- the steady stream of activity and constant growth (yearly doubling!),
- the different languages (since 2007)
- the clear objective and
- the inherent qualities of the project
His main home in cyberspace can be found at guaka.org.
Hitchhiking experience
see also my log
Europe: Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, England, Italy, Switzerland
South America: Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador
North America: Canada (only in Quebec), United States, New York State, Oregon, California
Asia: From Thailand, Chiang Rai through Laos to China, towards Hong Kong
Oceania: New Zealand, Auckland to Wellington and around the South Island, Australia, from Sydney to Melbourne
Random stuff
Esteban: "U have a wiki about how not to pay busses? I tought I was stingy dude, but obviously there's always someone in the world who can cleary exceed your capabilities".
Stats
On the 14th of June 2007 amylin and I possibly had our longest ride ever, in Europe at least: from Piacenza to Cologne, and the St. Gotthard tunnel was actually closed, so it was probably more than 1000 km :)
The shortest wait, well, that happened a lot, when your holding a sign when you get out of a car at a gas station on the highway and friendly people notice that.
My longest wait was in Argentina where I gave up after 18 hours.
