Tara Murtha is senior writer at Philadelphia Weekly (www.philadelphiaweekly.com), where she writes news, crime, policy, gender, media, music & arts. Follow her on Twitter at @taramurtha.
We take a cab to the outskirts of Bucharest to rent a car for the day. It is early spring, and my wife, Katie, will die in a few months, but this morning, I wonder how we might beat the weekend traffic.