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January 1, 2022 Life / Travel

The Best Little Shop in the World (Part II)

Getting away from it all — yet again — amid the roar of family and the festive season.

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September 12, 2021 Travel

The Best Little Shop in the World

Spending time in remote places brings real challenges, but they can make you all the more appreciative when you get back home.

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September 5, 2021 Travel

Lost, and Sadly Found, Amid the Cactus Fields of Macaronesia

By William J. Furney Resources are scarce on these Macaronesian islands. There is no rain, and life — plant and animal — clings on, desperately hoping for some kind of

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August 28, 2021 Travel

Dropping Out, Tuning In

By William J. Furney In a year marked by the loss of my father, whom I had lived with and helped care for during the past decade of his ill

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June 6, 2021 Travel

Is Air Travel About to Experience a Revolutionary Boom?

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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November 8, 2020 Reportage / 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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August 16, 2020 Commentary

Hysteria and Panic in Europe Over a Coronavirus That’s Bubbling Up But Killing Almost No One

By William J. Furney Cases of coronavirus are breaking out all over Europe, but hospital emergency rooms are not overflowing and hardly anyone is now dying from the pathogen that

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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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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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