Biography

Clint was born in 1983 in South Australia where he grew up spending most of his time engrossed in sport and the beach. That was until he started looking elsewhere to expand his mind further from the life that he knew and was content with, and turned to a map of the world. He was not a hundred percent sure yet of what he was to get from it, but in 2005 he tested the waters by taking off for several months and headed towards Europe where he hit the road and backpacked through well over a dozen countries before returning home. Little did he know, this was just the tip of the iceberg and just a taste of what was in store for him.

Before he’d even left Europe, he had been bitten by something far stronger than the common travel-bug. His desire for exploration and the open road had grew inside him to the point where returning home to be once more amongst everything familiar, no longer felt the same. While his surroundings had not changed, he had.

“…throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Mark Twain

Having new horizons and dreams, Clint gazed back at the same map with even greater intent. Knowing exactly what he must do, he gathered up as much money as he could, sold his belongings and left everything behind for a more challenging and rewarding experience to satisfy his inner urge of adventure …a one way ticket to Latin America and beyond. Taking off in December 2007, Clint spent a year drifting around the continent falling even more in love with life on the open road. This journey ultimately changed his aspirations and thoughts that concreted a new direction in life that he was already living and forever to pursue…

Inevitably the time came for Clint to bid a sad farewell to South America – a place that will forever hold a special place in his heart. A land full of hardship, struggle, passion and beauty. So for over a year in a port in the southern United Kingdom, Clint traveled in and out of Europe to those yet to have reached countries. And again scraped together as much as he could for returning to Australia – the longer way, through Saharan Africa and the Middle-East over several months.

Finally returning home from years on the road, he once again took to a map and planned his most daring adventure yet. Trading a bus, train and the odd back of a truck for a bicycle. Shabby beds, rooftops and the odd hammock for a tent and sleeping bag. His beloved backpack for a bunch of bike panniers. He cycled several thousand miles across the entire European continent, from London to Athens, during the middle of one of Europe’s coldest winters on record …on a bicycle!

Braving the mountains, snow, ice and never ending roads, Clint made it back to Australia. But to no surprise, within a few months he’d already had himself another one-way ticket! So as 2012 came to a close, Clint once again, up and left it all behind. Having begun in South East Asia, with his favourite rucksack, he heads west, circumnavigating the globe.