Last week I flew to Kentucky on business and in between doing what I was there to do, I was able to visit a "destination location" called Jungle Jim's. Jungle Jim's International Market is actually located in Fairfield, Ohio, just a few miles from downtown Cincinnati.

Jungle Jim's is one of those places that can't adequately be described without seeing it in person. It is 300,000 square feet of "grocery store" with annual sales of more than $90 million dollars that on a good week sees about 50,000 people visit. It currently has 300 employees.

Needless to say, there were not 50,000 people there when I visited—not anywhere near that number but still a lot of people going from area of interest to area of interest. After all, it's winter in Ohio and not many people on vacation at this time.

The first thing you notice is the 27 checkout isles arranged much like a Sam's Club. Once past these the store begins to open up and once you get your bearings, the real hike begins. We began our journey in the wine and beer section after buying a coffee at the Starbucks Café. Having been in some big stores—most notably the corporate Whole Foods Store in Austin—I was still shocked by the shear volume of goods packed into that space. They must have had every wine from every region in the world and it was organized by nation and area. Imagine the selection at your local supermarket and multiple it by 20 times and you get the picture. Along the walls leading up to the wine section was the beer "library" and you haven't lived until you check out some of the names of the craft brews that adorned the walls. Probably every small brewery in the country was represented. As advertised they have more than 800 International Beers and Microbrews; more than 400 U.S. Microbrews from 66 Producers in addition to many rare Monastery Brews. In a word: it was overwhelming.

Since you can only look for so long we then proceeded around the store following a route that led us to more and more departments and more foods and things than I had ever seen assembled in one place at one time. From the cheese department we entered the vegetable market with every conceivable domestic and foreign veggy available for sale. Then came the fish and meat department where you could buy fresh fish from a huge tank and get fresh cuts of any meat you might want from buffalo to ostrich and everything in between.

We then entered the dry goods area where everything was organized into national rows—isles and isles of Hispanic, Asian, Greek, Jewish, English, Danish, and middle eastern sections just to name a few that I remember. From there we walked to the "hot sauce" alley where you could choose from any of over a thousand different brands of good old burn your belly liquids. Of course I had to buy a couple.

In a word or two: the store has almost everything you would need to prepare a meal in almost any ethnic tradition and then some. You want some Russian borscht, you need look no further than Jungle Jim's. To round everything out they even have a pet supply section, a health food area, a post office and a pharmacy as well. One stop shopping redefined and re-refined.

So, it wasn't all business this past week—there was the trip to Jungle Jim's International Supermarket in Fairfield, Ohio—a trip that I will remember for a long time or at least as long as the hot sauce holds out.

Enjoy your ride today even if you can't choose between a hundred different dry pastas or more olive oil brands than you can fit in a van.