You may know that I gave up drinking Coke back in 2002, including all other cola flavoured drinks such as Pepsi, Virgin Cola, even Rolla Cola! Since then, when choosing a soft drink I’ve usually gone for Sprite or 7up. Imagine my surprise then on the flight over to be told they were out of both and would I mind terribly if I had a “Sierra Mist”. Being the adventurous sort I thought I’d give it a try.
Well it was just like Sprite or 7up. It’s produced by PepsiCo which explains why it’s not available in the UK, where it has the rights to distribute 7up. Apologies if you expected a more exciting post but at least you get a photo.
On the flight from Manchester to Chicago they provided a bottle of Crystal Geyser spring water with the meal. Being a 7+ hour flight I had a bit too much time to examine the label.
First thing that struck me was there appears to be some form of deposit. 5 cents in HI and ME and “CA cash refund”. Nice to see some states taking the environment seriously, if that is indeed what it’s saying.
The other thing I noticed was the splattering of trademarks. “Crystal Geyser (R)” I can understand but “Bottled at the source (R)” is surely a factual statement, if it’s true! “Alpine Spring Water (TM)” is equally baffling when the source is in Tennessee!
For quite some time I’ve had "Vanity" Alerts set up with Google. To attempt to cut out some of the irrelevant results, I’ve had a a couple of negative filters to remove Mike Nolan, former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. Now that I’m going to SF, I might have to remove some of these filters!
This summer, brother Alex and I are heading West to the New World for a bit of a road trip around the USA (with a detour into Canada to see some relatives). 18 days to travel from San Francisco to New York via lots of hopefully cool places.
With both Alex and I being IT professionals, it seems appropriate to use the interwebs to help us out and decide what to do along the way.
Here’s the initial route we came up with:
So: San Francisco, CA; LA, CA; Las Vegas, NV; Grand Canyon, AZ; Denver, CO; Chicago, IL; Toronto, ON; Boston, MA; New York, NY.
If you’ve been to any of these places, or have heard of good things to see and do, let us know in one of the following ways:
During the trip, I’m hoping to keep track of what’s going on. Of course I’ll be tweeting, I might be able to blog occasionally, I’ll upload photos to Flickr but I’d also like to try some more unusual things. I’ll try to plot the route on mapme.at – hoping that John McKerrell can advise on the best way to do this!
