"I thoroughly enjoyed Raymond's slender new book of eight short travel stories. Each piece is about a modern day individual going through a personal transition of one sort or another; the fact that they're set in a wide range of locations all over the planet is icing on the cake. ...Unfettered by their regular lives, the characters are able to experience previously unacknowledged sides of themselves in new, unfamiliar territory. Super writing with a lot of nuanced complexity."