Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can. In A Sunburned Country

Travel is described as increasingly motivated by fear that places or experiences may not remain available. The speaker openly frames this as possible pessimism rather than proving that particular destinations will disappear. In A Sunburned Country is the retained title note.

Context reviewed 30 September 2026