A man after my own heart…I LOVE coffee and visit Starbucks and other coffee houses regularly. I even have a window sticker on my truck that has a picture of a coffee cup – it says “Powered by Coffee”. No, it’s not the caffeine, I just love the taste of a good old cup of Joe.
Source: Canoe
Documenting a caffeine-powered quest to visit every Starbucks in the world has become the mission of a Nebraska attorney.
Bill Tangeman, 32, of Kearney, NE, who was a journalist before going into law, is making a documentary film about a Houston native who goes by the name Winter, who set out in 1997 to get a caffeinated drink at every corporate-owned Starbucks store on the planet.
On his Web site http://www.starbuckseverywhere.net Winter, who was born Rafael Antonio Lozano, said that as of Aug. 8, he had visited 4,775 Starbucks in North America and 213 in other parts of world. Outside of North America, Winter has gone to Starbucks in Spain, England, France and Japan. There are 5,715 corporate-owned Starbucks in the world, according to the Seattle-based company’s August newsletter on it web site.
Winter said his trek has been satisfactory on many levels, not the least of which is that it has allowed him to be on a nearly constant road trip for eight years. But having the incessant goal of reaching the next Starbucks provided another benefit.
“Every time I reach a Starbucks I feel like I’ve accomplished something,” Winter said, “when actually I have accomplished nothing.”
Link to the entire article here.
My two neighborhood Starbucks stores here in California!
A note from Winter:
“I’ll be in Northern California from Tuesday, August 23 to Sunday the 28 trying to visit as many of the new stores as possible. To avoid wasting time driving to stores that have not yet opened for business or are licensed (not operated by Starbucks), I need to call ahead of time. That’s a lot of phone calls, around 100. If you know that one of the stores on this list is not open, or is a licensed store, please let me know. Note that I’m only interested in stores from Fresno northward, and from Paso Robles northward.” You can contact Winter on his web site, Starbucks Everywhere. There’s a link for it in the article above.