For Alex, travel has been a way of life for years - from running marathons in Turkey and Kazakhstan to volunteering with wildlife in Bolivia and Vietnam. Back stateside, his passion for adventure led him to mush dogs for two winters in Oregon, move to a yurt in rural Idaho, live in a van outside Zion for one beautiful spring, and to work in Old Faithful and Many Glacier Hotels. It was there he first encountered Backroads, and the rest is history. When not working, he lives with his fiancée and their cats in Montana.