Jeremy Kroeker

Growing up on the Canadian prairies, Jeremy Kroeker spent most of his boyhood summers on a little dirt bike chasing gophers through Saskatchewan – the Land of Living Skies. As a young adult, he took 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 center near the end of the Balkan War.

Returning to Canada, Kroeker worked at a wilderness camp in Nordegg, 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 and a broken heart, he purchased a used motorcycle and rode from the Canadian Rockies to the jungles of Panama. Since then, he has stopped riding only long enough to author his first book, Motorcycle Therapy – A Canadian Adventure in Central America.

Kroeker has recently returned from another motorcycle trip, this one to the Middle East and North Africa. He works as a motorcycle instructor in Calgary, Alberta, spending most of his free time working on a second book.

Kroeker’s writing has appeared in several publications including the Winnipeg Free Press and Motorcycle Mojo Magazine. An excerpt from Motorcycle Therapy appears in I Sold My Gold Tooth for Gas Money, a book of travel stories compiled by Canadian author Matt Jackson.