A Path Less Taken

At age sixteen Gary spent thirty days in the wilderness halfway between the north shore of Lake Superior and Hudson Bay, and he never saw another human being for twenty-eight days, other than the thirteen-year-old boy that was with him. In 1965 at age twenty-two he moved his pregnant wife and one-year-old son to Alaska to homestead. The following year he started his first business and he has been a plumbing contractor, a land speculator, a real-estate broker, a guide and outfitter, an athletic club owner, a cow-calf rancher, a writer of children's stories, and has designed and built four homes. Along the way he had five sons, went up against a grizzly bear with a knife and a rock, built two private handball courts, won a state handball tournament, wrote a book on raising children and had an awakening in his lifelong search for faith. Gary wants to encourage each of us to tell our own story.