Option 2

IStir MyPudding has always wanted to go visit some of the more prominent fountain pen manufacturing sites in Europe and Japan. There are numerous impactful brands over in those parts of the world, including Pelikan, Waterman, Montblanc, and Lamy on the European front and Sailor, Pilot, and Platinum in Japan. And maybe a quick visit to Diamine in Liverpool on the way home, where MyPudding also plans to watch a Reds match... It should be a fairly quiet trip as it's both overseas and not really a place you'd expect one of the worst d-men in hockey to be spending his summer. MyPudding will, however, still be carrying his case of pens just in case... After the factory touring and pen shopping wraps up, MyPudding plans on touring the countryside and looking for the very best pudding the old world has to offer. He plans to spend some time just backpacking around and looking for the delicious, creamy dessert wherever it may be found. He will ask locals for recommendations and live by the motto "try anything once." Upon his return to the good ole US of A, he plans on shamelessly ripping these desserts off and selling worse products at a significant markup under the guise of carrying on and increasing the accessibility to European culinary traditions. It'll all be, of course, a shameless cash grab, but MyPudding needs all the extra dough he can get his hands on.