From the get a life file……

Starbucks’ biggest fan scrambles to pay homage

Here’s someone you might not expect. He goes by “Winter,” claims to have visited 9,078 Starbucks stores and is having to shell out a lot of cash to get to the rest before they close their doors.

Winter says he spends about 25% of his earnings, and three months of travel a year, on coffee runs. He declines to say how much he makes but says it would be “six figures” if he worked all year. Though whim and cheap flights have long directed his travel, now he says he plots his trips to hit the most shops. “The thought of the one store I skip being the one that closes is a bit unbearable,” he says.