The Highlight Real

  • The Highlight Real: You’re Harshing Everyone’s Mellow

    The Highlight Real: You’re Harshing Everyone’s Mellow

    In today’s episode of The Highlight Real: Let’s talk about early flights. I’m not talking about early in the normal human sense, where you set an alarm for 6am and go about your day.  I’m talking about the flights that leave so early you can’t decide whether to go to bed and get up at…

  • The Highlight Real: A Baltic Uber Cautionary Tale

    The Highlight Real: A Baltic Uber Cautionary Tale

    We’ve been traveling for the past 2-1/2 weeks – on our first river cruise – to Eastern Europe. A wonderful trip, but now it’s time to pay the “travel tax” – the process of re-entry: unpacking, laundry, mail, groceries, seeing which of my plants survived being neglected for 2-1/2 weeks, etc. So, while I catch…

  • The Highlight Real: Baby’s Coffee

    The Highlight Real: Baby’s Coffee

    Today’s Highlight Real is a real travel experience we had driving on the Overseas Highway (Route 1) in the Florida Keys. There are certain words and phrases that become a permanent part of a family vernacular. Phrases that are immediately recognized, and instantly convey the crux of the matter at hand.  This is the story of Baby’s…

  • The Highlight Real: Schnaps, It’s Good for Digestion

    The Highlight Real: Schnaps, It’s Good for Digestion

    Often when we travel, we have a “real” experience or interaction (good or bad) that just sticks with us. And because I keep my on-the-go travelogues to 2,000 characters or less, I don’t have room to tell the story then/there.  Trying to come up with a name for this occasional feature wasn’t easy:  {Update: The…

  • 🍿 The Highlight Real – Trazodone: A Cautionary Tale

    🍿 The Highlight Real – Trazodone: A Cautionary Tale

    Often when we travel, we have a “real” experience or interaction (good or bad) that just sticks with us. And because I keep my on-the-go travelogues to 2,000 characters or less, I don’t have room to tell the story then/there. Trying to come up with a name for this occasional feature wasn’t easy: {Update: The…

  • The Highlight Real: Merde!

    The Highlight Real: Merde!

    Often when we travel, we have an experience or interaction (good or bad) that just sticks with us. And because I keep my travelogues to 2,000 characters or less, I don’t have room to tell the story then/there.  Trying to come up with a name for this occasional feature wasn’t easy:  {Update: The WordPress censor…

  • The Highlight Real: How Big is America?

    The Highlight Real: How Big is America?

    Often when we travel, we have an experience or interaction (good or bad) that just sticks with us. And because I keep my travelogues to 2,000 characters or less, I don’t have room to tell the story then/there. Trying to come up with a name for this occasional feature wasn’t easy: Ken: You want to…