Christmas Came Early ...
... a Juan Valdez coffee shop, in the Miami airport! One of only three locations in North America, I was dying for a killer cup of Colombian coffee - sadly, it was terrible! Weak, and unlike the rich, delicious stuff we found in Colombia. But it wasn't a total loss - I picked up 15 bags of coffee! The good thing is that the bad coffee produced here had nothing to do with the quality of the ingredients, but poor skill of the baristas - because the ground coffee was as good as the stuff we brought back from Colombia last winter.
A land of vast distances and rich natural resources, Canada became a self-governing dominion in 1867 while retaining ties to the British crown. Economically and technologically the nation has developed in parallel with the US, its neighbor to the sou... ... read more 
