The Butterfly Route

After having had enough of the empty promises of her long-term employer, Michelle decided to make a new start, but first wanted to take some time to travel. Partly inspired by a handsome Englishman, she deconstructed her life - sold her home, put her belongings in storage and left a twenty-year career as an executive and its six-figure-a-year salary - to live life on the road, packing just the basics on her motorcycle. What started out as an extended vacation and break between careers, turned into a two-year journey from South Dakota to South America including random experiences, new friendships, rugged mountain roads to Andean villages, desert camping, two broken bones, countless accidents (happy and otherwise), and a marriage proposal.