Have you ever wanted to go out on a really long bike ride? How about a 10,000-mile journey that starts and ends in Mexico and takes you up into the northeast and Canada, following the migration pattern of the Monarch Butterfly?

Next week you’ll have two opportunities to hear Sara Dkyman, the author of the 2021 release, Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration. Dkyman says she met a lot of incredible people during the bike tour.

“You know sometimes, I think you might have heard the saying, you don’t choose the fight, the fight chooses you. And that’s how I feel about this trip and monarchs. I wanted to do a bike tour, and I thought, oh, i’d be fun to follow the monarchs. And then one thing led to another, and I discovered that there are a lot of incredible people doing incredible work, and they invited me to their house.”

Dykman will speak at Pittsburg State’s Yates Hall next Monday, September 26, at 7 pm. And the following day at the Joplin Public Library at 6 pm. Both events are free and open to the public.