I actually kind of enjoyed it, even though I wouldn’t spend a whole day there by any means. There was a park ranger who gave an interesting talk about the U.S. national park system and the museum about its construction was informative; Gutzon Borglum was an interesting guy!
On the other hand, the Crazy Horse monument was basically just a gift shop.
I was going to comment that we’ve talked about Rushmore a few times and IIRC the consensus is simultaneously “pretty cool” and “disappointingly small as seen from the distant viewing area”.
I’ve not seen it in person myself.
Same here
I’ve taken overnight (sleeping-berth) railway journeys in India some eight or nine times between 1995 and 2023, and I adored every one of them. (Okay, not the one where I was going from Varanasi to Delhi with what turned into a medium-grade fever, but that wasn’t the railway’s fault.)
I’m not saying the experience is guaranteed to be luxurious or hassle-free, though I think on the very upper end of the price range it’s probably getting there. I’ve got the usual Indian-travel horror stories about less-than-pristine toilets, long delays, reservation hassles, platform crowds, etc. But the scenery, the sociability, the basic-but-tasty Pure Veg tray meals, the “Chai Guy” coming through the cars with his kettle, the packaged cotton sheets. The Bollywood song battle with a bunch of high schoolers traveling to a science fair on the Hyderabad-Kozhikode route. The cozy haven of an upper bunk swaying through the night. (And that’s from somebody mostly traveling in India as an unaccompanied female, which can have problematic aspects, but has never been a problem for me on a train.)
If you want or expect train travel to be basically like a mid-range motel chain experience on wheels (and why shouldn’t you? clean private and boring is not an unreasonable expectation for travel conditions), then Indian Railways might be not worth the effort. If you don’t mind a few roughs with the smooth, though, it can be very enjoyable.
Very true. Even something as simple as the location of the oil filter appears to be an afterthought. After years of having oil run down my arm from changing the filter in a Toyota 4Runner, I nearly wept with joy when I saw where the oil filter is in the Subaru Outback that replaced the 4Runner.
Convertibles are fun if you (a) have a place to store them inside and (b) they are not intended for daily driving. My parents had a Porsche Boxster S, and after my dad passed away, my mom asked me to try and sell it. Consequently, I moved it into our garage (put one of our cars in her garage to make room), and started driving it around trying to sell it. We live in a part of California where we have ‘convertible weather’ reliably for 8-10 months out of the year. I loved driving it. I hated running around town in it. Shopping? Shirley, you jest! But dropping the top and taking it out for a spin on a twisty highway was more fun than a pile o’ puppies, and I was frankly surprised that it was the best handling street-legal car I’ve ever driven. If it was a car I had to drive on a daily basis for commuting, shopping, and running errands, though, I’d think very differently about it. If we had a 4-car garage, we might have kept it.
Owning a treadmill.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
I was disappointed at seeing it in person. Really underwhelming. But drivin’ them roads what a kick in the pants!
Furry slides. (You know, flip flops with fur)
Bad bad bad decision.
I’ve owned nothing but German convertibles for about a decade now and also decades ago as a young guy.
They make great daily drivers. They’re fine for shopping. I’ve carried 85" TVs in there. No way in hell it’d have gone into the corresponding hardtop. But top down, if the box is narrower than the vestigial back seats, the sky is literally the limit. 
I’m not leaving a laptop bag in the front seat, but I wouldn’t do that in a hardtop either.
I put a Fumoto oil drain ball valve on my Subaru. I can now change the oil and filter in a few minutes with no tools required (few minutes of work - the oil draining take awhile). Never had a car that made it so freaking easy.
Treadmill is the only piece of home exercise equipment I use consistently. I have nowhere to put one at the moment.
Me too! Hardly makes it worth putting on the coveralls!
Yep. but there is nothing like a jack’s taco. Literally. And the curled fries and eggs rolls are great.
I ordered a burger and two tacos and they refused to make me the tacos. “Oh, those will take too long so we’re not doing that”. What? It takes too long to make tacos?? Anyway, I can live without the experience because I guarantee nothing there will live up to the hype after that.
You beat me to it. Jack in the Box burgers are inedible and usually undercooked, but their tacos are heaven on Earth.
I flew home to Houston for a funeral back in August but made a point of grabbing a few JitB tacos for old time’s sake. I still remember the first time I had one when my aunt brought some over to our apartment when I was eight years old.
That’s probably true, but I got my girlfriend to try one in August as well (since she was of the opinion that there was nothing edible in a Jack in the Box), and she agreed they were amazing (but not exactly health food, to be sure).
Well, if I’m ever driving by, hungry, and see the drive-thru is empty maybe I’ll stop. The couple bucks will be worth it whether I have a delicious taco or get to authoritatively say they sucked. Win-Win!
I thought you were damning the tacos, not even with faint praise. A la “There’s nothing like hay when you’re feeling faint.”
[I’ve never eaten at any of restaurants in the chain]
The tacos are deep fat fried.
Both. The taste is unique and i love them, but they arent much like real tacos. Greasy goodness. They come in a pair, do NOT eat too many.
Don’t really care, to be honest. Not having them for sale and refusing to sell them is just incompetence. Also, lots of fast food is deep fried. It’s kind of a fast food staple.