Sno beach... a line of umbrellas on Barton Springs rd

Saturday afternoon and it doesn't take much to convince me to get on down to Sno Beach on Barton Springs rd for a sno cone. I had had enough of roof and yard work when Joseph came home from shopping (getting stuff for his room at Seattle University) and it just sounded like the right thing to do at the time.

This is a classic place that is always packed. The trailer is parked right on the side of Barton Springs but what makes it hard to miss is the line of umbrellas that people are holding for shade because it is close to 99° this afternoon.

http://snobeachaustin.com/

Joseph had lime and tigersblood and I had lime and pomegranate.

if its hot and you need to cool off this is a great place to stop. Don't let the line discourage you, it moves pretty fast and for three bucks the medium is plenty of sno cone.

The one thing about this place is it's right next to Sandy's which has the best frozen custard cone in Austin. I have been taking Joseph and Anna there since they started swimming at Barton Springs which was before they could walk. I think Sandy's will get the vote next time.

Friday lunch and still not an Airstream...

So it was Friday lunchtime and I was hungry so I thought it was time to find an Airstream to continue the adventure. I was already south of the river so I knew just the place to go... S 1st st in Austin.
 
I stopped at the first parking lot and there was an Airstream, I thought I was all set. To my disappointment it was closed. I walked all around to make sure which was too bad cause I liked their bumper sticker "Base jumping is not a crime". I will have to go back to see who is the base jumper.

Right next to it was Izzoz Tacos "where good friends make tacos and good tacos make friends" and I was hungry. So I ordered a pulled pork torta made with a ancho chilies and chipotle peppers. When one of the cooks brought it out I found it came with french fries which made this a five dollar pretty good deal. He stood there and smoked a cigerate while we looked up in the sky to try to find an airplane that was flying over. It was definetly a radial engine plane and sounded like a DC-3 to me but too many trees to spot it.


 nice folks and pretty good torta for the money. http://izzoztacos.com/

Airstream 1... sort of

Monday Troy and I agreed to meet for lunch at Sushi A-Go-Go off Barton Springs rd right next to Sandy's where the old Filling Station restaurant used to be. When I pulled up I found that it wasn't in fact an Airstream but a little boxy-trailer. A little disappointed because this was supposed to be my first Airstream trailer meal for this blog but we decided to check it out anyway.

It wasn't a disappointment, the sushi was excellent and the wasabi was hot. You could see the guy inside making the sushi to order. It took about 15 minutes to get ours, there there were a few people ahead of us. This was OK as it gave us time to catch up, have some deep conversations and laugh at ourselves a bit.

http://www.sushi-a-go-go-austin.com/