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Many of us have grandiose and romantic ideas about setting out on record-setting expeditions, or saving the world, but only a small percentage of us actually make them happen. Greg Clarke aims to be one of those people.
Clarke is a photographer based in Huntington Beach, California who is fulfilling a lifelong dream of hitchhiking from Alaska all the way down to Ushuaia, Argentina. Having already done the first leg of his journey by hitchhiking from Alaska to his home in California three years ago, Clarke now plans to add an altruistic aspect to the expedition.
Moved by the generosity of the people who helped him on his journey, Clarke has chosen to pay it forward by volunteering at five orphanages during this second phase of his trip. He has arranged for each of the five high schools he works with in California to be twinned with one of these orphanages so that students can fundraise for and correspond with them.
You can find out more about this on Greg Clarke’s blog, the Endless Miracle, or by checking out his indiegogo campaign