Review: Winging It: Travelling Without Reservations by Michael Kluckner
Review: Winging It: Travelling Without Reservations by Michael Kluckner Vancouver: Midtown Press (2026) This is such a fun book, particularly if you're interested in travel and adventure these days, but also if you want to reminisce about travels past, before the internet and cell phones. This article was originally published in The BC Review on September 11, 2026. *** There’s something heady about packing your suitcase and embarking on a trip where you don’t know exactly where you’ll end up each night, whether it be camping at a last-minute site by a lake, or a slightly dodgy motel off a lonely highway exit. I’ve travelled this way a few times, but not in recent years. I’d honestly forgotten the sense of freedom and discovery of a barely-planned road trip. Forgotten, that is, until I read Winging It: Travelling Without Reservations , a travelogue of sorts by Vancouver writer and artist Michael Kluckner. It’s a slim volume full of fascinating travel destinations and evocat...
