The highlight of this book is how it shows the most important thing to bring to your travels is an open mind and imagination—wanting to see places you haven't been before and just experience them in the moment because you'll never be able to reproduce that experience even if you return to the same place. The place will have changed, and so will you. This is illustrated well by the author's visits to New Orleans a few years before and after hurricane Katrina. The New Orleans context gives to a thoughtful discussion of the impact of climate change. But this awareness is undermined by uncritical attitude to flying, and what I actually found quite shocking how flippantly the author was telling about using her destinations as dumping ground for clothes she couldn't be arsed to bring laundry back home. The Mexican travels were probably the best bit of the book for me. ( )