Dirk Wierenga is an author, publisher, documentary filmmaker and wanderer based in Michigan. He has been responsible for the publication of over two hundred books, is the author of Presbyterian's, A Spiritual Journey (Geneva Press, 2000) and was the director/filmmaker of two documentaries: the four part documentary, D.B. Cooper, The Real Story (Principia Media, 2018) and full length documentary Route 2 Elsewhere (Principia Media, 2021). His latest book, Route to Elsewhere: A Personal Journey (Principia Media, 2026) chronicles the stories of fifty amazing people who live along a 10,000 mile swatch of rural America.