George L. Ayers is an author and lifelong adventurer. George was born in Trail, British Columbia, spent his formative years on the Saskatchewan prairies and grew up in small town Ontario. He has traveled extensively, backpacking across Central and South America and hiking the trail systems of Europe, Asia, and North America. In 2012 he published Chasing the Dream, followed by Buzzards and Bananas, two travel narrative books, that document his experiences as he and his wife explored Canada and backpacked their way through Central and South America during the turbulent and troubling 1970s. In 2020 he wrote Kilimanjaro - Climbing the White Mountain. His current book, Homestead Heritage: A Collection of Prairie Recipes & Stories of Gladys Anne Smith, focuses on the early pioneer life of his ancestors, highlighting the experiences of those early settlers in the Canadian west and sharing the original hand written recipes of local pioneer women.
