A bite out of the Big Apple reveals the entrenched paranoia of the ultimate rat race — in more ways than one.
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A Lowland Fling in Ethereal Scotland and Its Majestic Capital
Scotland is a feeling as much as an experience, but some aspects, like Edinburgh Airport, are mismanaged and lead to misery for tourists.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If Cattle Can Walk in the Streets of India, Can I Run in Them?
A vibrant exploration of Goa, where running through the heat sparks insights into India’s culture, spirituality and personal growth.
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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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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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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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