Travel Essays
(Part 1 of “Radio Prague Calling” ran last Monday. The story concludes today) In 1999, I went to Rome, Florence and Paris. Two years later, I spent most of a month in the northern half of Italy. I ate great food, drank good wine, rode everywhere on trains, and wondered why it had taken me [...]
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Travel Essays
When I was twelve, I received a gift that immediately took me far beyond the cultural confines of Seattle: A Hallicrafters S-38E short-wave radio. Although I could use the set to tune into Seattle AM stations like KING and KIRO, it was voices from far-off places like Japan, Ecuador, and Europe that kept me up [...]
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