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May 9, 2020 Reportage / Travel

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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February 8, 2020 Reportage / Travel

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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May 11, 2019 Reportage / Travel

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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April 22, 2019 Reportage / Travel

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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March 2, 2019 Reportage / Travel

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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December 1, 2018 Reportage / Travel

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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July 15, 2018 Travel

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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June 30, 2018 Travel

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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April 26, 2018 Travel

The Seven-Hour Dinner

This is a story based on actual events. By William J. Furney Anyone who has been to France knows how almost impossibly chic and sophisticated the French can be. It’s

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