Home of Dr. Pepper
Spent a good part of the last week traveling away from home. The first part of the week was spent on what I call the wrong side of the Brazos river…. and had the pleasure of kicking it in College Station.
I got up early this morning to find myself West of the Brazos and have spent the work day in and around Waco,. Texas.
I admittedly have neveer spent much time here before. I usually drive thru Waco and occasionally think about attending a Baylor Bear game. It then occurs to me that its about 3 hours away from my house and i abort the idea completely.
Well much to my surprise, I found myself really enjoying Waco after having a random walk about. One of the very first things I did was visit the Dr. Pepper museum this afternoon. I used to exclusively drink the stuff in my 20s but then shifted to other fizzy pops and recently have considered not drinking soda all together.
That being said - this has always been a bit of a dream visit for me and I’m glad I got around to doing it today. While visiting the grounds, I noticed that there were some HARDCORE Dr. Pepper fans in attendance. True Peppers that drink the stuff at 10, 2 and 4. I didn’t really make much conversation with them…. I’m a bit of a poser and didn’t want to engage in an indepth talk about the drink. It kinda reminded me of visiting Graceland. A place where you can run into a big time ELVIS fan and they call you out for not knowing enough about the KING of rock n roll.