If you don’t have a soda stream on board already, do yourself a favor and go get one right now.  If the 3 Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) don’t compel you, the storage space for normal soda cans should.   Not to mention the lack of availability of your favorite soda in islands far away.

I will be honest, I wasn’t a believer at first.  We had a soda stream at home and rarely used it.   I’m a Diet Pepsi kind of guy, and you could only get Diet Pepsi syrup in Canda for some reason.  We didn’t live in Canada.   That all changed about 6 months ago when DP syrup appeared at a local Target.   That broke the seal and made us believers.  Now we use it for my soda, soda water, Bubbly (you can buy drops), tonic water, you name it.   We have about 5 of the CO2 refills (we brought 2 and there were 2 on board) which is enough to last us a year.  I think we’ll be good.  If not, I’ve heard that you can get them refilled in many island destinations.

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