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Motorcycle Messengers: Tales from the Road by Writers who Ride.
Motorcycle Messengers is a collection of travel stories from some of the leading writers in the genre ... plus a few people you've never heard of. Consider it a sample pack of authors. Read a story by the fire and discover your new favourite motorcycle travel writer.
Lois Pryce exploits her dead grandmother and an imaginary husband to access the Congo.
Neil Peart finds his rhythm through the curves of North Carolina.
Paddy Tyson numbs his fear of crocodiles with a few drinks in Australia.
Carla King rides with a screaming, doped-up trucker in China.
Sam Manicom is forced out of country by the military in Sudan.
Geoff Hill breaks a Royal Enfield, falls in love, and becomes a hookah hooligan in Iran.
Jeremy Kroeker yearns to slap a rain gear designer in Slovenia.
Ted Bishop tricks himself into one final ride through the United States.
Mark Richardson puts his foot up and makes connections in Rwanda.
Jordan Hasselmann stares down the barrel of a wooden gun - and possibly a real one, too - in Guatemala.
Christopher P. Baker nearly crashes as he crushes crustaceans in Cuba.
Ted Simon ponders humanity while observing a rescue at sea off the coast of Malaysia.
Lois Pryce exploits her dead grandmother and an imaginary husband to access the Congo.
Neil Peart finds his rhythm through the curves of North Carolina.
Paddy Tyson numbs his fear of crocodiles with a few drinks in Australia.
Carla King rides with a screaming, doped-up trucker in China.
Sam Manicom is forced out of country by the military in Sudan.
Geoff Hill breaks a Royal Enfield, falls in love, and becomes a hookah hooligan in Iran.
Jeremy Kroeker yearns to slap a rain gear designer in Slovenia.
Ted Bishop tricks himself into one final ride through the United States.
Mark Richardson puts his foot up and makes connections in Rwanda.
Jordan Hasselmann stares down the barrel of a wooden gun - and possibly a real one, too - in Guatemala.
Christopher P. Baker nearly crashes as he crushes crustaceans in Cuba.
Ted Simon ponders humanity while observing a rescue at sea off the coast of Malaysia.
188 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 3, 2015
About the author
Jeremy Kroeker
6 books24 followersJeremy 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.
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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June 1, 2016
good book, enjoyed the stories. Jer could have thrown in a motorcycle therapy clip though.
August 25, 2018
This book is an anthology. Some writers and sections were better than others. I thought the sections by Ted Bishop, Paddy Tyson, and Jeremy Kroeker were particularly good. Some of the others were l less good she had a distinctive hint of toxic colonialism you sometimes get in adventure travel writing.
January 31, 2017
When record companies do this, it is called a sampler, and it is oftentimes free or, at least, very cheap.
This should also be the case here, as the morsels, appetizing as they may be, are simply too small to be really satisfactory.
This should also be the case here, as the morsels, appetizing as they may be, are simply too small to be really satisfactory.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews