Highlight Reel

  • 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: 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…