Your Guide to L.E.T.S. (Leisure, Entertainment, Travel, and Savings)
OMG This place is awesome. We grabbed some brisket and sausage and are already planning on coming back and we haven’t left yet.
You order your meats by weight and they are so good you don’t need sauce. The sides are cafeteria style, and great.
You really need to come to Cooper’s when you hit Austin. Oh did I mention the prices are reasonable? No well they are.
Good food reasonable price, what’s not to like.
For a while now I’ve been struggling to get my laptop to connect successfully to the internet. This has caused me to be very slow in posting to this side. As I would have to wait to get home for my trips in order to successfully post anything up. Now that is changing I recently ended up getting a Samsung Galaxy book 2 360. I wanted something lightweight and portable that I can take with me when I travel and then make it easier for me to post and transfer pictures from my phone. As part of the package I also ended up getting a new smartwatch, a Samsung Galaxy 4 Classic. Now I have been a long time user smart watches usually those made by Garmin. But it is nice to have an alternative to what I’ve been used to and again this will give me an interesting opportunity to give you guys some feedback on how the two day battery life works when you’re trying to get to see exciting and new experiences. Stay tuned and I will keep you updated on how both of these are working and as always don’t forget to bring your towel.
After a long day of fun 😊. We hit the Plaza Restaurant for dinner. It’s a small restaurant near the castle in Magic Kingdom. The food is sandwiches and ice cream. This was probably the best value we have had in Disney. The French Dip was good with lots of meat and a tasty horseradish sauce.
The better half grabbed a turkey sandwich.
Both were very good. If your looking not to break the bank and get something good to eat stop by the Plaza Restaurant.
After a fun day at Disney we decided to visit a restaurant at a nearby hotel. So to Todd English’s Bluezoo we tried.
We got a reservation and showed up a little early and stopped by the bar for a cocktail. The cockatiels were ok. The bar tender let the drinks set halfway through crafting to handle other customers which let the ice melt and water down the drinks. I normally take pictures of the drinks too share but the bar was too dark to take a good picture with out cameras. This brings up a point about the whole restaurant. The lights are turned down really low. It gives the impression that your eating in a cave or a restaurant that cannot pay their power bill.
For dinner we ordered an Angus steak and lobster pasta. Both were good but way over priced.
This is the $55 steak posts and mushrooms.
The food is good but the price to quality ratio is not here. Go somewhere else for food and drinks.
So to sum up Todd English’s Bluezoo, had good food but not worth the cost.
Just want to do a quick post on the room. It’s clean nice and comfortable. No complaints.
So got to the Yacht Club hotel and stopped in the Ale and Compass for dinner. It’s been a few years since we have been here but the magic needs some work. I guess like everywhere else the are having staffing issues because it took forever to get service.
We ordered some drinks and bread which did not show up before the entries. Yes that is correct we got the food b before the drinks. Not really acceptable.
I ordered the pasta with chicken
The chicken is was ok but the pasta itself was poorly cooked. It was clumped and stuck together. I wouldn’t buy this again. We also found out that the bread the waiter offered to bring which I didn’t take a picture of was $13 for five small roles.
The drinks that came were very good. I got a Purple Mariners the wife got a Manhattan. Both were excellent.
Overall I would eat dinner somewhere else.
Yes the menu is greatly reduced. And there is no social distancing Couldn’t get my favorite burger so went with the sliders and truffle fries.
The food was served quickly. The fries were really good but the sliders were a little over cooked. This is pretty typical with sliders so not really holding that against them. Another party member had the chicken salad. The chicken was typical.
Today, we went to Burger 21 for lunch and everyone really enjoyed it. I had the Black & Bleu burger with a Red Velvet Cake milkshake. The burger, which comes with bacon, bleu cheese, lettuce and tomato on a brioche bun was cooked to the desired temperature and tasted great. The milkshake was beautifully presented with a square of red velvet cake and a healthy dose of whipped cream on top. It tasted as good as it looked. My wife had a turkey burger on a wheat bun; the turkey patty was flavorful, unlike others she has ordered elsewhere, and she said would definitely order it again. We shared a family-sized basket of the delicious shoestring fries which was enough for about three people to share.
The rest of our party had the Cheesy burger and cheese fries with American cheese and the chicken Parmesan sandwich with a side salad. Unlike other restaurants, the cheese, bacon and scallion toppings were not on top of the fries but instead came in a bowl on the side. The flavor of the American cheese dip was not a hit with the one who ordered it, but I thought it was interesting and my wife thought it was good and would be a nice toppings on a sandwich. The side salad was a very generous portion and pretty much a full-sized salad, and the chicken Parmesan sandwich seemed to be a hit. This wasn’t our first trip to Burger 21, and it won’t be our last. The food and milkshakes are always fresh, delicious and plentiful, and the service and cleanliness of the restaurant above par. Burger 21 even has a hand-washing station in the restaurant so you don’t have to make a trip to the restroom to wash your hands before touching your food. And if you have picky eaters who can not agree on a what to eat, Burger 21 has something for pretty much everyone in your party.
Hello everyone one and welcome to my first report on the 2017 Chevy Volt. Over the first month of ownership I’ve been formulating my opinion of the Volt. I should add some information of other cars I have been driving recently. I am coming off of a 2013 Nissan Leaf. The family has a 2013 Chevy Volt plus the 2013 Toyota Prius that is also part of this long term review. To start off, the Volt is definitely different from the Leaf that I was driving but after a couple of days of use it has become extremely comfortable car to drive.
Overwhelmingly, the 2017 Volt is a fantastic car that will fit into many people’s lives and probably was one of the most functional mass-market electric cars a US manufacturer has produced in recent years.. It is a shame the 2019 was the last year for this car. It’s mix of electric and gasoline make it a great option or ares of the country where the electric car infrastructure has not matured.
I think we are still a few years away from having good electric infrastructure in the US to be as convenient as gas – at which point it will become more convenient to use all electric. Sure, almost every house, building and structure has an electrical outlet which can charge on level 1 or 2 (and the 2017 Volt does both levels of AC charging), meaning you wake up every morning with a full 53 mile “tank” of electricity. But to finally close the convenience gap of gasoline and frankly beyond, pure electric cars need to be outfitted with high power DC chargers and long range batteries which are not here yet.
As a former pure electric car owner, there were a lot of times I had to modify my plans to go everywhere I needed to go on my Leaf’s 50 mile range. It was virtually impossible to travel to my parents’ house and back in a single day. They did not have a level 2 charger so I could only use level 1 charging which would have required an overnight stay to have enough charge to get home. The Leaf was suffering from substantial battery degradation and the battery replacement cost more than the value of the car. Which eventually culminated in the purchase of the Volt.
Speaking of the Volt, every morning when you wake up with the 2017 Chevy Volt can be ready to go with a 53 real miles of EV usage, which is a significantly more accurate estimation than the Leaf provided. If you have a huge commute (over 25 miles), you can opt to charge at work and drive 53 miles of pure electric back. Some people will never finish the tank of gas that comes with their Volt. In fact that is what I have been doing for this first month. I have a charging station at work which allows me to charge for free. As such I charge there most of the time with only occasionally charging at home on the weekends.
The best part of the Volt is when you need to take the “off the beaten path” and switch into gas, the Volt does so elegantly and seamlessly. The internal combustion engine kicks in and you get a very respectable 42 miles per gallon and over 400 miles of total range. Chevy should be applauded for their efforts in building a car that makes the transition to electricity 100% totally painless for just about anyone.
Chevy has somehow fit two separate powertrains into a mid-sized car and still has respectable room in the trunk and back seat. The car also performs as well as any sudan. The EV acceleration will get you to highway speeds in under 7 seconds while lugging a dormant ICE powertrain along for the ride. The acceleration will surprise and delight you if you’ve never driven electric and the sports mode make the car more responsive and fun to drive.
Chevy has also toned down the “look at me, I’m a weird EV” factor in the 2017 Volt design. The 2017 Chevy Volt looks a lot like other sporty mid-sized cars The interior is also extremely nice, highlighted by the captive touch center console display which works great with Android Auto. The seats are comfortable, there are cup holders where they need and the inside experience is fantastic. I would also like to point out that the internal cabin space for the rear seat has improved over the 2013 model.
So far the Volt has performed better than anticipated. There are a few bells and whistles that I miss from the Leaf but that is to be expected since I moved from the top of the line to the middle range entry but where it counts there has been only improvements. The improved range, comfort, and handling out way the gimmicky 360 camera views that were only used in rare occasions.
Finally, what has it cost to operate the Volt for the first month? NOTHING. That’s right I have not had to send any money on the Volt in the first month of ownership. All the electricity I have used has come from free charging stations. Additionally, I still have about nearly a full tank of gas which the dealership provided when I bought the car. As ongoing cost go this is great.
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