Travel for Real
William FleesonPlaces. Books. Strong feelings.
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Two Years of Travel for Real
A button on my Substack dashboard prompted me to write an “anniversary post.” When I checked the date of this Substack’s first post, there it was: two years ago this week, I launched Travel for Real: Places, Books, Strong Feelings (TFR)....
Reading Naipaul, Riding Amtrak
Last month I ventured out, once again, on the slow, flawed U.S. passenger rail system called Amtrak. Two and a half weeks brought me from Washington, D.C., and back, in a crimped clockwise route through my home country.
Through Florida, N...
Photo From the Road: Hydra, Greece
A picture is worth a thousand words—but how many memories can one travel photo hold?
This launches a new series, called Photo From the Road. I’ve been working on this, at least in my mind, for a decent while.
Thanks for reading Travel f...
Nuclear Memories
The Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear accident took place 40 years ago. Soviet Ukraine, and the Soviet Union, are gone; an independent Ukraine defends itself today.
In the generation since, what have we learned?
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A Soldier and a Pacifist
The last couple of months have brought more stories from my Ukraine reporting. Each story is a profile, or in any case, single-character-focused.
Both characters are men, Ukrainian, military officers, and deeply patriotic.
Thanks for re...
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William Fleeson is a writer. A native of Washington, DC, his work has appeared in BBC Travel, Narrative, National Geographic, Newsweek, and elsewhere. He earned a nomination, most recently, for The Best American Essays anthology. www.willfleeson.com
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