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| Cycle-touring adventures, wilderness treks, and other long-winded ramblings of a hiking biking vagabond |
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About Alex
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I was born in Germany and spent my early childhood in Turkey, but have lived most of my life in British Columbia, Canada. For the last couple of decades, when I have an address it is usually somewhere near Nelson, BC.
I got the long distance wilderness backpacking bug in the mid 80's and have had a few awesome adventures on foot since then. In 2000, I tried cycle touring for the first time; my first overnight trip was several thousand kilometers and lasted from May until September. I fell in love with touring and have done a number of tours since, all on the same non-suspension mountain bike (a Specialized Rockhopper).
I work as little as I have to to fund my trips, which are self-propelled or with a mostly self-propelled component. I am trained as a survey tech, and for the last few years have worked on and off as a draftsperson for a legal land surveyor in Nelson. Over the years I have also driven cab, delivered fliers and catalogues, worked as a guide, and done various other jobs in order to keep going.
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I am passionate about hiking and biking, but also about sustainable living in general and about living in a way that at least makes some personal concession to reducing the disparity between the rich and the poor in our global community. I try to acknowlege the injustices that have been and continue to be perpetrated by colonialism and the colonialist mentality, and also try to encourage people to celebrate "otherness" rather than using it as an excuse to see certain people as less than human.
I'm a philosophy and science geek and love reading and thinking about ethics and human nature and how things work in general.
In January of 2008 I celebrated a half-century of life. I am now happily filling the second half with as many self-propelled adventures as I can manage.
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| My favorite answer to the question "Are you a boy or a girl?" is "Yes". If that asks more questions than it answers, well, that's kind of the point. Whether you are meeting me for the first time on this website or have met me in person, chances are that whatever assumptions you have made about my gender are at least partially wrong. I tend to shun gender labels in general, but I supose if you abolutely need one, the closest would be to say that I am a masculine-leaning XX person. I mention this mostly because there is a disproportionate number of single white (and, probably, heterosexual) XY men among those heading off on solo-adventures of the kind I do, and I want people outside of that demographic to know that you can be anyone and still do this. |
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My first time in the saddle of a shiny red bike. Not my lovely red rockhopper, but a beautiful specimen nonetheless and undoubtedly the prized possession of the young turkish man holding it.
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To contact me, send an email to hikerbiker(at)riseup.net
I've written it out like this to avoid getting spam, please copy into your email and replace the (at) with @
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copyright Alex M. Grove, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
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