• It was in Bar-le-Duc (French department of Meuse (55)), a little city known only because the train Paris-Strasbourg stops there for 2 minutes, that I saw the world for the first time. On the 11th of September 1977, I become the third and last son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Hubler. At the age of 6, my family and I moved to Alsace, a few kilometers from the big city of Strasbourg near the German border. There, thanks to my family, I lived a happy, comfortable, stable and untroubled childhood.

This calm past was confirmed in my life as a student, where, thanks to an exemplary education, I passed every obstacle of my academic career without any real difficulties until graduating from the IECS, the graduate business school of Strasbourg (France), with a Master of Science in Management.

• · Jacques Hubler, my father, is someone who can be proud of having succeeded in his professional and personal life. One of the secrets of his success, which he has repeated to me several times, is his willingness to constantly develop himself, being curious and always going beyond what people generally do.
• Moreover, since I've been very young, my father has often organized different kinds of challenges to motivate his three sons to give the best of themselves and to obtain results often beyond expectations.

• With such a familial context, it is not surprising that my life has become a succession of challenging experiences, sometimes personal (pictures taken with G. Bush, M. Gorbachev and J. Major), sometimes with teams (I've played football for 18 years).

• This need to do unordinary things has been, in the last few years, coupled with another need: to learn more about the different cultures and populations from all over the world. Thus, I've started to travel, to learn about cultures different from mine, other ways of life, to know better about others but also about myself.
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• As it is with all students, my financial resources were limited and didn't allow me to travel around. Therefore, I began to travel using a technique which is disappearing in France : Hitch-hiking. First I put my thumb up on the side of the roads near my city, then I went further, crossing France and the rest of Europe from the Atlantic ocean to the Ural and from the Baltic sea to the Mediterranean sea (more than 40,000 Kms traveled). To increase the chances of getting lifts, I usually use the "gas-station technique". How does it work? I ask drivers filling their cars if they are going in a given direction and if they could drop me off in another gas-station further on the way. What are the advantages? I limit the risk since I can choose the people I am traveling with, and it allows a direct contact that subsequently increases the chances of getting a lift
  

• Little by little, I realized this means of transportation offered many advantages : Not only a reduced cost but also a flexible way to travel (no timetable to deal with), a unique way to meet the local people with different social and cultural backgrounds and the possibility of sharing a little bit of their daily lives.

• Hitch-hiking has therefore become a passion and as a result of this passion I have been touring the world using car and boat hitch-hiking as unique means of transportation.

• Touring the world : Yesterday, it was an exploit. Today, we tour it in a few hours on a plane from hotels to palaces . But what can we really see ?
  
• In 1519, Henrique,a slave of Magellan, toured the world for the first time. Since then, lots of travelers have followed, but unfortunately without really meeting the local people.

• ersonally, other than the obvious personal challenge pursued, the objective of this tour is getting to know the populations and cultures of many countries in the world. Thus, during this tour, I will try to take part in their daily lives for a few days, a few hours or even a few minutes...

• To help share my adventure and to allow sick children to benefit from my experience, I've decided to become the "big brother" to around thirty children who are victims of Cancer and Leukemia of Strasbourg-Hautepierre's hospital (France). "Big brothering" these children will allow them to follow my tour in a privileged way thanks to the Internet (with web cam and regular e-mails), and will be an excellent means to help them discover the world even as they lay in their beds.