by Charlie Leocha | Feb 27, 2010
The International Wife Carrying Championships takes place in Finland where contestants from dozens of countries compete in this difficult but leaves-you-laughing festival. In Gilroy, Calif., the town unites to celebrate garlic! Everything garlic can be found here...
by Charlie Leocha | Feb 27, 2010
Giant earthquake in Chile with more than 50 aftershocks expected to generate tsunami (Saturday, 2/27/10; 6:48 pm)Tsunami warning lifted for Hawaii The tsunami reached the Big Island of Hawaii, 6,700 miles from Chile, about 4 p.m. Eastern time, according to reports....
by Charlie Leocha | Feb 26, 2010
The Consumer Travel Alliance feels that Explosive Trace Detection (ETD) effort is a step in the right direction for airport and airline security. Unlike the whole-body scanners that have not been fully tested, that admittedly cannot detect many explosives in powder...
by Charlie Leocha | Feb 26, 2010
After a series of stories about the travails of oversized passengers and baggage fees, now I have a story about an oversized dog sent to me by one of our contributors, Karen Cummings. (Where does she come up with these things?) She notes that Giant George, the...
by Charlie Leocha | Feb 25, 2010
Back last August Delta Air Lines and US Airways proposed trading their slots at New York LaGuardia and Washington Reagan like baseball cards. Delta wanted more NY slots and US Airways wanted more DC gates. Both were already powerhouses at the airports where they...
