It has to do with how their time is spent, in comparison to each other, and what they've accomplished when they are "finished."

So Winter can say he "visited every Starbucks (except the ones built since I reached my goal and stopped)" while Lee has no such artificial goal. He's simply on walkabout, as Crocodile Dundee would say. I would never choose to spend my time the way Lee does. It is simply too little productivity resulting from too great an investment in time. But I still admire him for choosing to live his life actively and self-sufficiently doing something he enjoys. The greatest way this differs from what Winter is doing is that I consider "visiting every Starbucks franchise building in existence" to be an idiotic choice for "something he enjoys." If this is just an excuse to travel the country then it amounts to little more than "I want to travel in conventional ways to conventional places in every corner of the country." OK, so he sees lots of sights in his journey from one Starbucks to the next. But Lee's pursuit is the journey itself. In contrast to seeing what fragrance of urinal cakes is used in east-coast Starbucks Lee decided to go and see if his High School sweetheart was as sweet as he remembered her, and to her, him. The answer was, predictibly, no. But now he knows.

The importance of this entire subject is: A semi-rare opportunity to reflect upon how we choose to live our lives. Time is fleeting and the roads chosen often exclude other roads not traveled. To invest any of that time in logging which coffee shops I've visited and which not is to me, idiotic.

P.S. I still like Starbucks coffee. I get mine wherever I happen to be.