Nah, he's been stopping at places and buying the whole trip. I'd have been fine if he'd said "We're not going to go into the boring little snack bar and tourist trinket shop behind my cameraman, because it's just as boring as all the other boring little snack bars and tourist trinket shops at every other tourist destination. We're going to try to whip up some coffee ourselves. Besides, it gives me an excuse to start a fire!"
Back to EdenThe interesting thing, to me, is that it is all cyclical. Prior to nutrition and germ theory (discovery of bacterial causes of disease and breakdown of foods...
Or "The good news is, there's a snack bar that serves hot coffee. The bad news is, we're up here at 9 AM, and the snack bar doesn't open until 10, and we're freezing and need coffee RIGHT NOW. And it's a boring generic tourist snack bar anyway."
Or something.
But as I've been saying, I like the show, and wish it went for more than four episodes. This bit was just ... annoying, because I've taken the cog train to the top of Pike's Peak and been in the snack bar/tourist trinket shop, and the way they shot that bit gave a false impression of what's up there.
-- Tagon: "Where's your sense of adventure?" Mike Van Pelt Kevyn: "It died under mysterious circumstances. mvp at calweb.com My sense of self-preservation found the body, KE6BVH but buttures me it has an airtight alibi." (schlockmercenary.com)
