Patagonia Winds & Falling Out of Love With the KLR

Images: Jeremy Kroeker and Elle West

Images: Jeremy Kroeker and Elle West

MOTOTRAVEL SERIES: SEASON 1 - PART 7 - SOUTHWARD CHRONICLES

Part 7 of the first season of Adventure Rider Radio’s exclusive MotoTravel Series featuring motorcycle riders and adventurers from around the world. Each season we will follow a rider or riders’ adventure trip, from beginning to end. You’ll get an intimate perspective of how things unfold in near real time.


On this episode Jeremy Kroeker and Elle West are flattened, literally,  by the winds of Patagonia. They encounter wild animals in a place they least expected, blow up their travel budget, experience beauty like that which they have never seen before. And to top it all off, Jeremy is falling out of love with his KLR650.

Jeremy and Elle have been together for a couple of years, lived in different cities and spent weekends together. They haven’t lived together or spent any significant extended time together. They describe themselves as fiercely independent people, they’re both experienced riders and they have both done long motorcycle trips, but not with each other. This is the first time that they are spending this much time together.

Jeremy described their planned trip as that they are on separate, but parallel journeys. They’re travelling together but are riding separate motorcycles, and taking separate gear, including camping equipment. They’re fully prepared to go their separate ways if that should happen, for whatever reason. There’s some distinct personality differences to deal with as well, so follow along as we hear from both Jeremy and Elle as they grow and change separately and together on this journey.

Images: Jeremy Kroeker and Elle West


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If you liked this story listen to the first five Southward Chronicles episodes, all found on one page:
https://adventureriderradio.com/mototravel-series

Jeremy Kroeker is the author of Motorcycle Therapy and Through Dust and Darkness, and the editor and publisher of Motorcycle Messengers and Motorcycle Messengers 2.
Website: http://www.oscillatorpress.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremy_kroeker/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elle.on.wheels/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jeremy_Kroeker

Follow along for monthly episodes to find out how it’s going with Jeremy and Elle. Subscribe to the ARR RSS feed.

And if you missed it, listen to Jeremy talk about his travels and writing Motorcycle Messengers way back in September 2014 (Early years for ARR).


MUSIC CREDITS:

Title: Funky Folk
Title: Greasy Wheels
Title: various intros and stingers
Title: Lead Guitar
Title: Stinger 1
Artist: house

Title: B34 (ft. NoSushi)
Artist: zikweb
http://ccmixter.org/media/files/zikweb/8168

Title: Sonic Signature 1
Title: ROCK INTRO 1
Title: OPEN ROAD
Title: Modern Rock 2
Title: LIGHTNING BUGS
Artist: Jason Shaw
AUDIONAUTIX.COM


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