'Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel' moves your stuff so Mother Nature can't

By Lon Wagner The Virginian-Pilot © September 26, 2008 It' wasn't a tropical storm that stopped drivers at the north toll plaza of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel on Thursday morning.

My trip to The Gambia (Part III)

After a few days of getting into the swing of things and running about with guides, we managed to hire our taxi driver, Abdullaih, as our guide instead of having a new guides daily. With him we took all kinds of trips in the area around the hotel.

My trip to the Gambia (Part I)

My husband and I got a nice chunk back on our tax return and noticed that we hadn't been travelling a lot since we moved to the US. By now we had been back in Germany, and many more options for travelling were there, so we set about finding a place to go on vacation at.

Where the Hell is Matt

Matt is a 31-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut who used to think that all he ever wanted to do in life was make and play videogames. Matt achieved this goal pretty early and enjoyed it for a while, but eventually realized there might be other stuff he was missing out on.

Life is a little like that.

Too Late! Too late we've past it - we were travelling on, obviously with some deadline not stated. Another 20 miles or so and again I stirred to my Father saying, 'too late we've past it'. It was many years later that I realised that the trips would ever be thus.

Outfoxing airlines unlikely to spare travelers American Airlines' baggage fee

Think you can weasel your way out of paying American Airlines' new $15 fee for checked bags? Don't bet on it. I twice tried to evade the fee Sunday by sneaking an oversized suitcase aboard American flights as a carry-on bag.