Bicycling with Butterflies

Sara Dykman follows the monarchs over 10,000 miles on a bicycle as the butterflies migrate from Mexico to Canada and then back from Canada to Mexico again. Dykman is a real explorer, choosing to travel alone on a bike, camping out most nights in a tent outdoors. She gets testy sometimes with the questions people ask (“Are you crazy? Why would you travel by yourself? And with no gun? Or even mace?”) and she worries a lot about the migrating monarchs. Along the way, she stops to occasionally stay with a fellow monarch advocate, and she also speaks to groups at schools and any other place that can get people together about the monarchs.

I learned a lot about monarchs from this book, and I definitely know that I will never, ever (honestly, I could never, ever) travel 10,000+ miles on a bicycle to observe and promote the monarchs like Sara Dykman. But I definitely will do more as an individual to tell others about the monarchs' cause.