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Jeremy Kroeker

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Jeremy Kroeker is a freelance writer, a speaker, and the award-winning author of two books, “Motorcycle Therapy – A Canadian Adventure in Central America," and "Through Dust and Darkness - A Motorcycle Journey of Fear and Faith in the Middle East."

With his motorcycle, he has traveled to nearly 30 countries while managing to do at least one outrageously stupid thing in every one. He has evaded police in Egypt, tasted teargas in Israel, scrambled through minefields in Bosnia and Lebanon, and wrangled a venomous snake in Austria. One time he got a sliver in El Salvador.

Kroeker was born in Steinbach, Manitoba in 1973, but he grew up in Saskatchewan. He spent most of his boyhood summers on a little dirt bike chasing gophers. As a young adult, Jeremy Kroeker is a freelance writer, a speaker, and the award-winning author of two books, “Motorcycle Therapy – A Canadian Adventure in Central America," and "Through Dust and Darkness - A Motorcycle Journey of Fear and Faith in the Middle East."

With his motorcycle, he has traveled to nearly 30 countries while managing to do at least one outrageously stupid thing in every one. He has evaded police in Egypt, tasted teargas in Israel, scrambled through minefields in Bosnia and Lebanon, and wrangled a venomous snake in Austria. One time he got a sliver in El Salvador.

Kroeker was born in Steinbach, Manitoba in 1973, but he grew up in Saskatchewan. He spent most of his boyhood summers on a little dirt bike chasing gophers. As a young adult, he took a job as a long-haul truck driver to fund a year of travel in Europe. There he attended a mountaineering school in Austria and volunteered at a Croatian refugee centre near the end of the Balkan War.

Returning to Canada, Kroeker worked at a wilderness camp in Alberta where he fell in love with ice climbing (an enterprise that has been described as “hours of suffering interspersed with moments of terror”). To earn entire work-free winters to climb, Kroeker laboured during the summers as a member of an initial attack wildfire rappel crew in northern Alberta.

Some time later, as a knee-jerk response to a failed relationship, he bought a used motorcycle and rode from the Canadian Rockies to the jungles of Panama. That trip provides the foundation for his book, “Motorcycle Therapy.” More recently, Kroeker completed another motorcycle trip, this one to the Middle East and North Africa. "Through Dust and Darkness" chronicles that journey. (Rocky Mountain Books, 2013.)

Since 1999, Kroeker has made his home in Canmore, Alberta, although he still travels extensively. He presents slideshows of his adventures in classrooms throughout southern Alberta and at motorcycle rallies across Western Canada. His writing has appeared in newspapers such as the Toronto Star, Winnipeg Free Press, Calgary Herald, and in American magazines such as Alpinist, and Outrider Journal.
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	Motorcycle Therapy 3.94 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Through Dust and Darkness: A Motorcycle Journey of Fear and Faith in the Middle East 4.03 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Motorcycle Messengers: Tales from the Road by Writers who Ride. by Jeremy Kroeker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark Richardson, Carla King (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Motorcycle Messengers 2: Tales from the Road by Writers who Ride by Jeremy Kroeker (Goodreads Author), Ted Simon, Lois Pryce 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Perhaps, more than anything, it’s the sound of riding a motorbike that makes you feel alive and transforms every man into a boy.”
― Jeremy Kroeker, Motorcycle Therapy: A Canadian Adventure in Central America

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“Against this backdrop of an imagined future, Bridger poled the sluggish ferry. To and fro, back and forth, motion without progression, never venturing so much as a mile beyond the fixed points of the two landings. It was the polar opposite of the life he imagined for himself, a life of wandering and exploration through country unknown, a life in which he never once retraced his steps.”
― Michael Punke, The Revenant

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“suffering, even though it may have happened a long time ago, is something that is passed from one generation to the next to the next, like flexibility or grace or dyslexia. My grandfather had big green eyes, and dimly lit scenes of slaughter, blood on snow, played out behind them all the time, even when he smiled.”
― Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows

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“If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head.”
― Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows

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“When you write books for a living, you come to realize that while not all people who write to authors are strange, all people who are strange write to authors.”
― Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island

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