Achenbach explains each step in this highly technical story adroitly, walking readers through both the morass of industry jargon and the confusing collaboration between BP and the government.
To aid my adventure I'd been given a wooden walking stick complete with a small Japanese flag and bells that would tinkle with each step, as though I were an Alpine cow.
"Walking meetings result in undivided attention because the mobile device isn't within eyesight, tempting you to step away from the moment, " she says.