From 2006 to 2015 Nathan Thompson drove more than 26,000 miles across thirty-four states chasing freedom and adventure on the open road. He and a handful of his closest friends shared nights of drunken revelry from the deserts of Utah to the French Quarter of New Orleans, weathered floods in Oklahoma, barreled through the night in marathon cross-country journeys, and spent hours making repairs in California only to break down again and again in Washington, Montana, and Wyoming. All together, Chasing Butterflies is a patchwork tale about life behind the wheel at the turn of the twenty-first century.