Coca-Cola plus Coffee
Often, when you travel, you get to try a product that hasn’t yet been introduced at home. I got to thinking yesterday morning as I made my Sunday morning donuts pilgrimage to Casey’s with my daughter. A couple of years ago, while traveling from Alice Springs to Uluru, my mom and I stopped at this convenience store along the road to pick up refreshments for the remaining trek to Uluru. It was a long drive. I was pretty tired because I had been to 4 different countries and had taken multiple flights over the prior couple of weeks without too much rest. I had endured the stress of classwork, the fatigue from flying, and other unpleasant problems associated with travel. I began to wonder if this whole thing was a good idea. I wondered even more when I caught my mom next to a fence talking to some emus. What have I done? Why am I here? Why is my mother talking to farm animals? So we fueled up, and I picked up something to drink. When I saw the bottle of Coca-Cola with Coffee, I simply had the inclination to consume as much caffeine as possible, but it wasn’t bad. I like coffee and I like Coke. What could go wrong? Well, nothing did go wrong. We made it to our destination refreshed and awake. But I wondered, would I ever have that experience again? Not just driving in the middle of Australia, but all of the things associated