My Coffee Cup
Travelling has its challenges. How I do it now is unlike in the past when I had obligations to family, work, my bank account, and so on. I have never enjoyed going on a trip and cramming it with every conceivable tourist trap, even though many are amazing, then getting back home requiring another week to recover. When I do visit these ‘must-see’ sites, I cringe when encountering the bus-bound, color-hat-wearing throngs being marshaled through, earbuds firmly ensconced. Not relaxing or enjoyable at all.
Things are different now. Time, once the enemy, now an ally, at least for the foreseeable future. Taking full advantage, I get to go on extended stays visiting sites of my choosing at my leisure. Another benefit is the ability to avoid the masses by traveling around the periphery of the peak times like school holidays etc.
With this additional time, I find a coffee shop or two in the vicinity, spend most mornings caffeinating, reading, writing, chatting with the locals. It’s a ritual I’ve some to enjoy. I do the same when I’m at home, that’s where I discovered my dislike for cold coffee, hence the coffee cup. Since I sit around for a while it’s inevitable that my coffee doesn’t retain it’s temperature. To deal with this most pressing of problems I got my paws on a Yeti, not that guy but the double walled, highly insulated type. Man does it do the job. No more ice-coffee for me. Most places will even, it saves them the few cents for the paper one, just put the coffee straight into it, win-win.
It doesn’t take much to make me happy. Once I realized it was important to me, Yeti found it’s way into my somewhat over loaded travel bag. It has, and will continue to make the trips with me as I venture to various places around the globe.
