By William J. Furney It’s all about speed and today’s crop of jetliners just don’t measure up. So says new US aviation firm Boom Supersonic. The Denver-based company’s mission is
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Category: Travel
Travel in a Time of Coronavirus
By William J. Furney Garda (Irish police) checkpoints, traffic jammed and snaking back further than the eye can see, everything except places of business selling “essential services” shuttered for over
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A Rude Sahara Sandstorm Diversion That Went Viral
By William J. Furney I am wondering if it’s possible that I’m sitting across the narrow aisle from the most annoying person in the world. In a blaring brash voice,
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What a Sight: Mystical Men and Magical Machines
By William J. Furney Half an hour before heading to the airport for a flight to Istanbul, I realised I didn’t have a visa and my passport was invalid. It
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Tales of Two Pakistanis in Towering Dubai
By William J. Furney In Dubai this week, I encountered two men from Pakistan, one named Muhammad and the other Mohammad, both of them upper-end taxi drivers in an otherwise
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If Cattle Can Walk in the Streets of India, Can I Run in Them?
By William J. Furney This Easter Sunday morning on my sweltering hour-plus run along a long stretch of beach by the frenzied Goan town of Candolim, I received several waves
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In Berlin, in Search of Bacon
By William J. Furney At the National Art Gallery in Berlin, no one knew anything about Francis Bacon. Not the frazzled women on the ticket desk, nor the attendant they
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Out of This World in California
Letter from America By William J. Furney Someone was smoking in a toilet on the upper deck of the world’s largest passenger plane as it rocketed its way at close
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Fear of Flying Is Irrational, Yes, But It’s Still Valid
By William J. Furney Whether humankind was designed or developed from a petri dish-like swamp, it’s a safe bet that either the creator or evolving genes didn’t envision that some
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On Top of the World, and Star-Gazing, in Tenerife
By William J. Furney Why are observatories painted white? Wouldn’t a natural shade of green be better, so they’d blend in with the environment and not stick out like an
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