Archive for the ‘Coffee Interludes’ Category

Interlude 74 - The Minibar

Minibars have gone 2.0. There are electronic sensors that monitor the drinks. Pick up a bottle, get charged for the bottle. Move a bunch a bottles to make room for takeaway food, get a nice surprise on your room charges. Party!
I am still a little hungover…

Interlude 73 - Mesa Grill

First meal was at Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill. The decor was fine and the service excellent.

Appetizers were the shrimp tamales and the blue corn pancake duck thing. The tamale was just okay. Unlike the foie gras sliders, from the night before, this was not an explosion of flavors.

The duck thing was better [...]

Interlude 72 - Elf-awareness

Whatever gets you through the day…
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Interlude 71 - Montezuma’s Castle

The afternoon was spent touring Montezuma’s Castle. This was our third attempt at visiting this National Park. The first two times we got there too late in the day.

It was quite impressive. I spent much of the visit trying to determine how they got water up there.

As with most of these parks [...]

Interlude 70 - Thank You, Air Traffic Control Tower Guys!

One of the cool things I get to do is visit Air Traffic Control Towers and chat with controllers. I did this yesterday before getting out of town. I wanted to see what the busiest travel day was like through the eyes of controllers at a top 25 busiest airport. There is [...]