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What an incredible journey this will be:

Pilot to Follow Butterflies from Canada to Mexico

[The] ultralight plane will follow millions of monarch butterflies during every part of their winter migration from the forests of eastern Canada to the central Mexican mountains. Mexican pilot Francisco Gutierrez and a crew including other pilots from Canada, the United States and [Mexico], plan to leave Quebec on Aug. 15 and follow that migration.

The route will take them to Montreal and Toronto and south across the United States with stops at Niagara Falls, N.Y., New York City; Washington; Lawrence, Kan., Oklahoma City; Austin, Texas; and Eagle Pass, on the Mexican border.

I can't wait to see the resulting documentary of this adventure.