35 degrees this morning 56:45 minutes walking
After a question from my cousin about using my Starbucks app to find a Starbucks in the area where my “work territory” is, I I checked a map of the City and found there are 12 Starbucks in the Northwest quadrant of the metropolitan area (fortunately where I live) ! That is really amazing. There is only one Starbucks in the SW Quadrant and one Starbucks in the entire east 1/2 of the metropolitan area!
There are roughly 24 Starbucks in the total Metropolitan area, five are in the far suburb south area, one is in the east metropolitan area, one in the southwest quadrant and the rest are all in the Northwest quadrant, including the far north Suburb.
Looking at the map, the Starbucks in the Northwest quadrant are almost on top of each other.
I guess it is marketing and being where the customers are, but that is really strange. I really don’t understand that, I’ll have to check some more and see if I”m missing something!
I figured roughly within a ten mile radius of where I live, there are e 14 Starbucks, and a16 are within a 12 mile radius!
Where I work, there is one Starbucks in a 12 mile radius! There is really only one which is remotely possible for me to justify going during the work day and none that are really convenient.
I could be missing something, perhaps my search didn’t give some results
This is all rough figures, but if nothing else, it is a good approximation. I was right, there are no Starbucks in my field area. Plenty of McDonalds, Braums’, 7-11’s and Taco Bells etc., so I won’t want for coffee, but…. (Actually, I never get coffee at Braums’, almost everything else is wonderful there, but their coffee….. Taco Bell and McDonalds have excellent coffee.
In any event,l when I am “in the field”, it is normally so intense, I rarely stop even to eat. When I go in the field I bring along a Trail Bar and a small container of peanuts and Cashews (and two bottles of my diet Gold Peak tea! and about 3 bottles of water) and I just keep going and eat between my visits in the car. I don’t even drink coffee very often while I am in the field.
it is hard to explain how you feel in the field (I think almost everyone is this way), but I just want to keep on going until I finish, I just don’t feel like stopping.
I think that is one reason I really like it, there are days in the field of intense activity, and then days in the office when I research and complete paperwork from the days in the field.
Aliene and I went to Starbucks tonight. She had her “Carmel macchiato” (I think I have that right), while I stick with either a dark roast or an iced coffee. Somehow there is a timeless quality at Starbucks you don’t get elsewhere.
There are actually at least two “coffee shops” within a short distance of our house (about two miles or so, in addition to the Starbucks (and at least 4 Braums) but we have never tried the coffee shops.
I did used to stop at our neighborhood McDonalds before we got the internet hooked up and then while I was commuting to the office. I’ll get a cup of coffee (as I mentioned McDonalds has excellent coffee) and a parfait.
I am a very sloppy coffee drinker when I am driving, so I normally don’t try to drink coffee and drive. My one exception is McDonalds. Somehow their coffee cups are relatively easy to drink while I am driving. (It is impossible to drink out of a Starbucks cup while I am driving! I have a hard enough time just getting one home without spilling it).
I have tried numerous “commuter” coffee cups that just don’t work.
I’m not quite sure how this entire post was about coffee, but….coffee is important to me!
That’s it for now, Saturday, January 24, 2015.
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