Lee Glover has had a long and successful career in technology, including software development, marketing and project management before he became a “Pirsig Pilgrim” and jumped into a multi-year adventure.

Glover’s journey of a lifetime

began in the summer of 2005 when he discovered a pink paperback with a curious title at a yard sale in Meridian, Idaho.  Twenty five cents seemed like a bargain for “Zen  the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”.  The philosophical and spiritual journey that followed was priceless.

From 2008 through 2012 Glover travelled parts of the route in ZMM several times uncovering hidden meaning and discovering fascin

ating stories about people, places and events.  It was like the greatest Easter Egg hunt ever.  A high point of the journey was creating and premiering a film in Bozeman Montana at the 2012 Chautauqua honoring the author Robert Pirsig.  It was a kind of full circle and a great honor to show an audience some really general and abstract concepts in a film called “MERIDIAN”.  Glover’s 1964 Honda SuperHawk motorcycle he acquired for his 2008 journey was a centerpiece at the 2012 Chautauqua with its gleaming chrome and a look that shouted “Please take me on a journey”.   

Glover has his own deeply personal and unique connections to the ZMM story as he has experienced the mental illness of his father and the death of a child.  His father was arrested in 1976 at a road block on the Zen route. One of the high points of Glover’s life journey was climbing Elephant Mountain South of Bozeman with his father in August of 2011, inspired by Robert and Chris Pirsig’s similar hike in the summer of 1968.   

The journey into philosophy and spirituality continues for Glover who’s life was forever changed by that little pink book.  Not bad for a middle aged grandfather who was born two days before the Pirsig family moved to Bozeman on a journey that would change many lives.

Lee Glover lives near Boise, Idaho with his wife of 35 years.  He has three children and three grandchildren and continues to work in technology with a new and higher Quality perspective.