What in the World, a free weekly newsletter from our foreign correspondents, is sent every Thursday. Below is an excerpt. Sign up to get the whole newsletter delivered to your inbox The French poet and novelist Anatole France once wrote: “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
” North America correspondent Farrah Tomazin meeting Savannah after she completed her seven-year journey around the world. I have thought about this a lot over the past few days as I’ve found myself grieving over a dog I barely knew, who had also touched the hearts of millions of others at a time when many of us probably needed it. Some of you might recall that, a few years ago, while much the world was still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, I wrote a story about New Jersey native Tom Turcich , who had spent seven years walking across the globe with his beloved dog Savannah, a rescue pup he’d picked up in Texas not long after setting off on his journey.
By the time they returned home in May 2022, the pair had traversed six continents, 38 countries and almost 45,000 kilometres, boosted by the kindness of strangers they’d met along the way. There was the family in Algeria who gave them a bed to sleep for the night. There were truckers on the Pan-American highway who gave them oranges and water as they wandered from one destination to the next.
They even met a couple in Uzbekistan who invited them to their wedding. But then on Sunday – almost two years to th.
