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STRETCHES HITCHHIKED: BY JACOB HOLDT 11:23 AM

Around Europe 1967-1970: 
 
København-Esbjerg-København = 4.416 km 
København-Rom-København = 4000 
København-Luxemburg = 950
Total 9.355 km

From April 1970 to December 1971 in USA-Canada:
New York - Toronto, Canada = 549 miles 
Toronto - farm in Goodwood (back and forth for 8 months) = 3.600 
Toronto - Detroit MI = 244 
Detroit - Chicago IL = 276 
Chicago - St. Louis MO = 288 
St. Louis - Toronto = 808 
Toronto - Vancouver BC = 2.800 
Vancouver - Victoria - Vancouver = 132 
Vancouver - San Francisco CA = 965 
S.F. - Berkeley og omegn = 260 
S.F. - San Jose - S.F. = 200 
S.F. - Carmel og omegn - S.F. = 400 
S.F. - Detroit MI = 2.458 
Detroit - Wash. D.C. = 511 
Wash. DC - Baltimore - Columbia MD -  
Philadelphia = 210 
Philadelphia - Pittsburg PA = 404 
Pittsburg - Chicago = 486 
Chicago - Detroit = 276 
Detroit - Toronto = 244 
Toronto - Montreal - Toronto = 682 
Toronto - Ottawa = 270 
Ottawa - Montreal 125 
Montreal - Quebec = 156 
Quebec - Boston MA = 395 
Boston - New York = 209 
N.Y. - Boston - N.Y. = 418 
N.Y. - Toronto - N.Y. = 1.098

Around Europa  
Dec. 1971 - April 1972:
London-Ostende-Esbjerg = 1.290 km 
Esbjerg-København-Esbjerg  = 552 
Esbjerg-København-Wien-Budapest-Paris-Amsterdam- 
Esbjerg  = 4.572 
Esbjerg-Århus-København-Esbjerg-København-Ostende- 
London = 2.318
Total 8.732 km

North- and Central America  
April 1972 - December 1975:
New York - Toronto, Canada = 490 miles 
Toronto (back and forth to farm near  
Oxbridge, Ont.) = 360 
Toronto - Detroit, Mich. = 241 
Detroit - Ann Arbor - Detroit = 80 
Detroit - Chicago = 272 
Chicago - Milwaukee, WI = 87 
Milwaukee - Madison - Chicago = 219 
Chicago - Indianapolis, IN = 188 
Indianapolis - Jackson, MI - Detroit = 240 
Detroit - Chicago = 272 
Chicago - Fond du Lac, WI - Chicago = 408 
Chicago - Madison = 145 
Madison - Chicago = 145 
Chicago - Ft. Wayne - Indianapolis = 350 
Indianapolis - St. Louis = 250 
St. Louis - Memphis = 302 
Memphis - Texarcarna, TX = 277 
Texarcana - Dallas = 183 
Dallas - Laredo, TX = 425 
Around Mexico (Laredo - Mexico City - Acapulco - Mexico - Puebla - Oxaca - Tapachula -  
around Guatemala - Tapachula - Mexico -  
Laredo) = 4.678 
Laredo - Miami = 1.571 
Miami - New York = 1.330 
New York - Hartford CT - New York = 200 
New York - Baltimore - New York = 374 
New York - Boston - Maine = 569 
Boston - Wash. DC - New York = 766 
New York - Hartford - Boston = 120 
Boston - Toronto - Detroit = 795 
Detroit - Jackson - Chicago = 272 
Chicago - St. Louis = 288 
St. Louis - New Orleans = 775 
N.O. - Franklin,LA - Lafayette - N.O. - Natchez, MS. - 
Greenwood, MS - New Orleans = 1.013 
N.O. - Carville, LA - N.O. - Angola, LA - N.O. = 390 
N.O. - Porte de la Hatche - N.O. = 70 
N.O. - Morgan City, LA - N.O. = 160 
N.O. - Jackson, MS - Rapid City, SD -  
Wounded Knee = 2.272 
Around the Pineridge reservation - Spearfish, SD -  
Wounded Knee - Spearfish = 650 
Spearfish - Billings, MT - Fargo, S.D. -  
Minneapolis = 1.281 
Minneapolis - Madison - Milwaukee - Chicago = 468 
Chicago - Kalamazoo, MI - Detroit - K.zoo - Detroit -  
New York = 1.241 
New York - Boston - Hartford - New York = 480 
N.Y. - Baltimore - Wash. DC - NY - Wash. DC = 708 
Wash. DC - Pittsburg - Toronto = 600 
Toronto - N.Y. = 490 
N.Y. - Philadelphia - Wash. DC = 236 
Wash. DC - Myrtle Beach, SC = 465 
Myrtle Beach - Charleston - Columbia -  
Greensboro, NC = 390 
Greensboro - Winston Salem - Greensboro = 50 
Greensboro - Lynchburg, VA - Wash. DC = 288 
Wash. DC - Annapolis, MD - Salisburg -  
Norfolk, VA = 230 
Norfolk - Plymouth, NC - Manteo = 165 
Manteo - Greenville - Chapell Hill - Greensboro = 321 
Greensboro - Raleigh - Wendel - Greensboro = 274 
Greensboro - Fayetteville - Orangeburg, SC = 285 
Orangeburg - Denmark - Allendale - Bamberg - A.dale - Charleston = 244 
Around Charleston = 40 
Charleston - Daytona Beach, FL - Cape Canaveral = 384 
Cape Canaveral - New York = 1.107 
N.Y. - Wash DC - Baltimore - Wash. DC = 337 
Wash. DC - Greensboro, NC = 310 
Greensboro - Durham - Chapell Hill - Greensboro = 143 
Greensboro - Atlanta - New Orleans = 820 
New Orleans - Baton Rouge, LA - Angola -  
Natchez, MS = 175 
Natchez - Ferriday - Vicksburg - Jackson = 105 
Jackson - Birmingham, AL - Gadsden - Knoxville, TN - D.C. - N.Y. = 1.223 
N.Y. - Boston = 216 
Boston - Manchester, NH - Boston = 104 
Boston - N.Y. - Rahway, NJ - N.Y. - Rahway = 260 
Rahway - Philadelphia - Wash. DC - Norfolk VA -  
Wash. NC = 108 
Wash. NC - Cherry Pt. - Durham - Greensboro = 279 
Greensboro - Wash. NC - Chapell Hill - Boone = 509 
Boone - Greensboro - Raleigh - Greensboro = 263 
Greensboro - Chapell Hill - G.boro - Fayetteville -  
Jacksonville FL = 625 
Jacksonville - around Gainsville - Ocala - G.ville - J.ville -  
G.ville = 640 
Gainsville - Miami Beach = 337 
Miami - Key West - Highway 27 - Miami = 340 
Miami - H 27 - Miami - Palm Beach -  
Fort Lauderdale = 147 
F.L. - Palm Beach - Belle Glade - Palm Beach = 120 
P.Beach - Miami - P.Beach - N.Y. - 
Palm Beach via Greensboro NC = 2.952 
P.Beach - Sebring - Immokalee - Fort Meyers - Bartow -  
Orlando = 460 
Orlando - Gainsville - Jacksonville - Wash. DC = 1.012 
DC - Buckanon WV - Charleston - G.boro -  
Greenville NC = 1.022 
Greenville - Wash. DC - Morehead NC -  
Greenville = 682 
Greenville - New Bern - Greenville - Wilmington - Morehead - Greenville = 1.354 
G.ville - G.boro - Raleigh - G.boro - G.ville -  
Swanquarter - G.ville = 734 
G.ville - Wash. NC - Williamstown - Rocky Mount - Wilson - G.ville = 308 
G.ville - Wash. DC - N.Y. - Boston - N.Y. = 886 
N.Y. - Rahway NJ - Philadelphia - N.Y. - Boston -  
N.Y. = 600 
N.Y. - Philadelphia - N.Y. = 200 
N.Y. - Erie PA - Buffalo - N.Y. = 1.037 
N.Y. - Wash. DC - Philadelphia - N.Y. = 550 
N.Y. - Greenville NC - N.Y. = 980 
N.Y. - Toronto - N.Y. = 1.158 
N.Y. - Richmond VA - Burkeville - Greenville NC -  
N.Y. = 1.064 
N.Y. - Boston - N.Y. = 443 
N.Y. - Boston - N.Y. = 443 
N.Y. - Harrisburg PA - Wash. DC - Baltimore -  
N.Y. = 550 
N.Y. - St. Louis - Clovis N.M. - San Francisco -  
Los Angeles = 4.067 
Los Angeles - San Francisco = 400 
S.F. - San Diego - S.F. = 1.040 
S.F. - Santa Rosa - S.F. = 120 
S.F. - Vancouver - Boise ID - Salt Lake - Phoenix - L.A.- S.F. = 3.470 
S.F. - Bakersfield = 340 
Bakersfield - Las Vegas = 282 
Las Vegas - Los Angeles = 281 
L.A. - San Diego - Tuscon AZ = 540 
Tuscon - Dallas TX = 846 
Dallas - Houston = 245 
Houston - San Antonio - Austin = 278 
Austin - Abilene - Austin = 738 
Austin - Nashville TN = 860 
Nashville - Greenville NC = 658 
Greenville - Raleigh - N.Y. = 731 
N.Y. - Austin TX = 1.961 
Austin - Boumont = 248 
Boumont - Baton Rouge LA - Lafayette = 281 
Lafayette - New Orleans = 236 
N.O. - Meridian MS - Philadelphia - Meridian = 242 
Meridian - De Kalp - Meridian = 70 
Meridian - Livingston AL - Gainsville - Eutaw - Greensboro AL - Marion - Selma - Montgomery = 244 
Montgomery - Luverne - Troy - Union Springs = 121 
Union Springs - Panama City - Union Springs = 388 
Union Springs - Meridian MS = 210 
Meridian - Huntsville AL - Louisville KY -  
Cleveland OH = 912 
Cleveland - Detroit - Columbus OH - Lexington KY - Greenville SC - Orangeburg - Augusta GA = 1.175 
Augusta - Waynesboro - Augusta - Sparta - Milledgeville - Augusta = 289 
Augusta - Atlanta - Carrollton - Newman - Atlanta = 388 
Atlanta - Lexington - Athens - Elberton - Washington -  
Augusta = 242 
Augusta - Waynesboro - Augusta - Waynesboro -  
Luisville - Macon - Columbus = 340 
Columbus - Union Springs AL - Tusgekee - U. Springs -  
Tusgekee = 269 
Tusgekee - Phoeniz AZ = 2.200 
Phoenix - San Francisco = 800 
S.F. - Green Gulch Farm - S.F. = 60 
S.F. - Palo Alto - S.F. - Palo Alto - S.F. = 160 
San Francisco - Durham NC = 3.300 
Durham - N.Y. = 510 
N.Y. - Greenville N.C. - Miami - Ft. Lauderdale = 1.440
Total miles in USA, Canada and Central America: 100.111

Hitchhiking in Africa November 1978:
Banjul, Gambia - Zinquinchor, Senegal - Farim, Guinea Bissau - Banjul = 452 km
 
Hitchhiking in Greece, May 1981:
Patre - Athen = 164 km 
Around Lesbos = 128
Total: 292 km
 
Hitchhiking after the filmfestival in San Francisco, November 1981:
Chicago - Detroit - Wash.DC - New York = 1.012
Total miles: 1.012
 
Hitchhiking in Southern Africa, Jan-Feb 1982:
Harare - Inyanga - Harare - Matziva Mines -  
Harare in Zimbabwe = 1.105 km 
Harare, Zimbabwe - Gaborono, Botzwana -  
Harare = 1.904 
Harare - Lusaka, Zambia og Dar Es Salam, Tanzania - Nairobi, Kenya = 2.604
Total 5.613 km
Hitchhiking with my two-year old son, Daniel, in the USA Aug.-Sept. 1982:
San Fransisco - Los Angeles - Barstow - Memphis - Atlanta - Miami - Greenville, NC - Wash.DC - New York - Boston - Detroit - Chicago - Omaha - San Fransisco - Sacramento - S.F. - Sacramento - Santa Barbara - S.F.- San Diego - S.F. = 10.295
Total miles 10.295
Hitchhiking to the bookfair in Frankfurt,  
October 1983:
København - Frankfurt - Munchen - Nürnberg - Köln - København = 2.444 km
Total km 2.444 km

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Total miles: 111.418 ( = 179.272 km)
Total kilometers: 26.888
TOTAL IN KM (179.272 km + 26.888 km) = 206.160
TOTAL IN MILES 129.000

 

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