The coffee is almost ready

# Chapter 325

Coffee is almost ready, and I am more than ready for it. When I was a kid, my thought was “how can something that smells so good taste so bad?” Fast forward 50 years and I don’t know how to live without it. That is not something I am proud of, but I am trying to face it head on and enjoy the ride. One of the most fascinating parts of my coffee ride was when Brenda and I went on a cruise to the Caribbean for our 30-32 anniversaries. Here is a ship, with 5000 people on it, for a week in the Gulf, and there was practically zero coffee available on board. I mean real coffee, we aren’t talking Folgers here. The two tiny coffee shops that were onboard, always had long lines and long waits. It certainly had me scratching my head, and as well had me struggling to avoid a caffeine headache.

I have moved on an Aeropress mode of making coffee, and I have a mobile version that I can take anywhere and do. The cruise was a blind spot for me, because I expected a boat filled with Westerners would be flush with coffee options. Wrong assumption. Now I cover my bases better, and make sure that I have a coffee options. Everything just goes better when it starts with coffee at the beginning and middle of the day. I literally have three coffee grinders, and three French presses, one at every locale I spend a lot of time at. I am so thankful that I have access to good coffee and that there are varieties available to me that I can enjoy every day. Its a great blessing.