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
* * * * * * * * * *
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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