Taking refillable mug to park with beverage and ice

[zackiedawg]

I hate the paper straws. But I also don't like carrying around a mug. It's allowed, but I am usually without backpack or any kid of bag, so the mug quickly becomes a pain to carry. I tried it once or twice - the best solution when going without a bag was to bring a carabiner with me, so I could clip the empty mug to my belt loop on my shorts to at least keep my hands free.

I usually bring my own straw with me (it's a world-killing, climate-change inducing, bird slaying, evil poisonous PLASTIC straw - but I don't throw it away in the parks - I keep it with me all day and bring it back with me. Every time I get drinks throughout the parks, I can just pull out my handy old-fashioned straw and enjoy my drink for as long as I want (with paper straws, I sometimes have to go through 3-4 of them when I'm nursing a drink as they saturate and become worthless before I finish...the bamboo and sugarcane ones are definitely better, but still a little weird on mouth feel - can't beat good old plastic for that).

 

[juxtapose]

So we don't have to carry it around all day, we bring throwaway cups and fill the mug up and then transfer it to the cup we'll throw away when it's empty. We mainly do that for coffee in the morning, but you could do it for any type of drink.

 

[elvispursley]

We used to fill our up with coffee from the resort (and make it a poor man’s mocha by adding chocolate milk). But I hated lugging around mugs all day. We don’t drink any soda somfor
Is we don’t get them anymore and just bring our water bottles (which we still lug around). But we did enjoy our coffee

 

[FLCA026]

We did take the mugs. And yes they were handy if even to pour the rest of our drink from lunch or even just ice water from counter service.
And if we were I over at a resort for lunch we could fill them as well.