Overview

Gary used to work in the military and has patented several agricultural devices. He has also written an agricultural directory, which he considers his first book.

His book - Destination North Pole - is his 7th book. He decided to take a trip to the North Pole via pedaling and logged his journey.

Gary Wietgrefe, an inventor, military intelligence veteran, economist and lifelong South Dakotan, isnow a multiple award-winning author!Gary was the recipient of not one but two awards and finalist at the prestigious Global Book Awards,this past week. Gary’s memoir, Destination North Pole--5000 km by bicycle, won Silver in the Travel/ Adventure category. In addition, and just to show how well-rounded Gary is as a writer, he also wona Bronze award for his non-fiction release Relating to Ancient Culture in the Historical StudyCategory. Lastly, his 420-page book, Relating to Ancient Learning, was also finalist in GlobalAwards’ Education and Reference category.

His Book

https://www.amazon.com/Destination-North-Pole-000-bicycle-ebook/dp/B08BK8LDG1?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=discoveredwordsmiths-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=d0534c18ee9498a36873b5e671828d5a&camp=1789&creative=9325

Website

Favorites

https://www.amazon.com/Henry-David-Thoreau-Collection-Disobedience/dp/B096TLBFLS?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=discoveredwordsmiths-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=f9c3386dd1b8597a874f2bae2196e94f&camp=1789&creative=9325

YouTube

https://youtu.be/hI0hlYJ_izk

Transcript

So today on discovered word Smith, I wanna welcome Gary who has written a great book.

We're gonna talk about called destination north pole, Gary, how are you doing today?

[00:00:51] Gary: Doing fantastic. Thanks for calling.

[00:00:53] Stephen: Yeah, it, this is gonna be a great talk. I can't wait to hear about this book, but before we do that tell us a little bit about who you are and some of the things you like to do outside of writing.

I see you have a lot of great books. So obviously I,

[00:01:07] Gary: I, yes, I do. I like to read, obviously that's one of 'em, but I, my background is agri agriculture, but the first I'll call it seven years of my life, besides going to school, I was military intelligence. Did things like copy foreign signals and brief and debrief pilot.

So I think that gave me a lot of background to being more critical is what you hear, what you. What you learned, what maybe what you absorb, but I may have been living in agriculture. My patents are in engineering and biomass processing and things like that.

[00:01:41] Stephen: Wow. That's pretty cool. So why did you wanna start writing?

[00:01:47] Gary: Ooh I think I've been writing all the time. My, my first job outside of military was actually working in South Dakota department of agriculture. And I we didn't have an organizational directory of all the organizations we were working with 50, a hundred, whatever it was. And so I started organizing that.

So that became my first directory. Then I did a second edition and another thing we were supposed to be promoting South Dakota products, but we never had a list of products or producers. And we were involved in exporting and we didn't have the list for exporters.