Having traveled all over the United States, Kreskin Torres was ready to try the famous Wimberley Cafe.
The Baltimore-native and Army veteran had found a calling as a Uber Driver who travels around the country trying out different restaurants and experiencing their food and culture.
Coming to Wimberley he visited the Wimberley Cafe, as well as Cactus Coffee Shop and Felix T. Jack’s Haberdashery Shop. Torres was immediately fascinated by the Cafe’s Chicken and Waffles.
Biting into the dish, Torres immediately enjoyed the meal along with the bacon stuffed pancakes.
“This is delicious,” Torres said. “I need to shake Chef Kelly’s hand because this is delicious. With the sweet potato fries, I never thought that this would go together. I would highly recommend this place.”
For Torres, this was an opportunity to not only experience all types of food but also get to know people from all parts of the country.
“To inspire people and meet as many people as I can,” Torres said. “I find people, society and the human race fascinating. A lot of times we don’t think people are different or we don’t think about others especially if something has happened to you. It’s understandable because it’s like ‘This only happens to me’ or ‘You don’t know what I’m going through’ but how do you know that if you have never left the city that somebody is going through the same experience as you?”
On his journey, Torres has met various people from different backgrounds to talk about what is going on in their state.
“I ask myself when I go to places is “What is happening,” Torres said. “When I went to South Dakota, people there talked about ‘Native Americans’ or ‘This is what is going on here’. Unless you are there, you are not going to know about it. On my first trip to Phoenix, Arizona, they had a teachers strike going on there. I was staying at an AirBNB where the hosts were teachers and they were coming back at six in the morning. I was like ‘You were out there’ and my hosts said ‘Yeah we just got back from the strike.’ This wasn’t a three hour strike, no they were out all day and night ”
The last state Torres has to go to is the state of Hawaii before he attempts to travel to the US territories in Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, US Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands.
But while Torres has been traveling across the country, he has made it a mission to visit the small towns people may not have heard about.
“I mainly like going to places people don’t like to talk about,” Torres said. “This year I have been traveling and focusing on going through these small towns especially when I’m doing Uber. Another thing is when people say ‘I’m in a town people don’t know’ they will reference the next major city even though their town is two hours away… These are the places I want to go, and I want to show people where these places are. I don’t want to go where all the tourists go, I want to go see the places that are not talked about.”
Some of the places that Torres has been to include Hastings, Nebraska which is famous for being the place where Kool-Aid was invented and Johnson City, Tennessee.
“I posted this to a facebook group and this lady said ‘Well if I would have known that would excite you’’ Torres said. “Because to her she is so used to it, the Kool Aid Days festival is not that big of a deal, but I’m like ‘People would lose their minds if they found out there was a Kool Aid festival.’”
Though Torres travels a lot, expect him to be back in Wimberley.
