Besides being stuck on 84 from 1 to 2 in the morning because it was closed and then driving back most of the way last night in pouring rain, our visit to NY for Christmas went off without too many problems.The highway closing thing, well I just wish I had realized what was happening about 30 seconds earlier. I could have gotten off the highway and taken back roads through Danbury without any problems. Instead, we were stuck on that section of highway between the exit and the accident. The police started shunting traffic off at the exit, but all ...

Our oldest car, the 1998 Beetle, is kind of a lemon and always has been. On any given day, there's usually something not quite right going on with it. And after 11 years of ownership it has only about 60,000 miles on it. Lights we need burn out, lights we don't want to see come on whenever they feel like it, noises come and go, things snap off. Today the license plate decided to fall off and an electrical cord that leads to something saw fit to come loose and drag on the ground. And because I know as much ...