#coffeeneuring 2023

In den sozialen Medien kursieren schon seit einigen Tagen die Dankschreiben (inklusive Fotos) an Mary – “… Patches and Sticker sind angekommen! …”. Und ich warte und warte – Amerika ist doch weit weg und die Post beeilt sich nicht. Aber heute endlich: Auch meine Sticker sind angekommen. Und eine Nachricht von Mary. Ich war heuer der einzige Coffeeneuring-Teilnehmer aus Österreich! Das sollte…

Coffeeneuring 2023, Ride 3, Eastbank Esplanade, 14 Oct 2023. Olympus XA/Kodak Gold 200 Another year, another Coffeeneuring Challenge for the books! I’ve been doing the Challenge every year since 2013, and I’ve completed most years, I think there’s only one where I didn’t do all seven rides.1 (I almost thought I’d not make it last year due to COVID, but I got my last ride in on the last possible…

Olympus OM-1n–OM Zuiko 50mm f/1.8–Candido 800 I had one more Coffeeneuring Ride to do in order to complete this year’s challenge. Initially I wanted to hit up PDX Coffee Outside again on Saturday November 11th, but the forecast was total crap: rain and windy. I’ll go again another time. Instead I decided to hit up a new-to-me coffee shop in the Roseway neighborhood on Friday. Denizens Cafe is…

Surfers. Ocean Beach, San Diego. 5 Nov 2023. Minolta XD5/MD Rokkor 45mm f/2/Kodak ColorPlus 200 Back at the beginning of the month Emee and I traveled to San Diego and spent a week there. We were facilitating a tech conference, the third one her company has done. This makes my third visit to the most SoCal of cities. The first time I passed through was in 2003, when S.D. was a stop on the Copy…

Two weeks previous I attempted to meet up with other folks at Portland’s weekly Coffee Outside. Unfortunately I got there too late, and it became a solo adventure. So I was determined to right that wrong, and have at least one successful group endeavor. Saturday October 28th was a beautiful day for it, sunny though a bit cold (there was frost on rooftops as I left my house). The destination is…

It’s been an October with not much in the way in riding. The last time I rode before this ride was on Saturday October 14th, which was my Coffeeneuring Ride 3. Since then, I got sick again. This time it wasn’t COVID, just a nasty li’l cold with a few days of a nasty li’l cough. This compelled me to stay inside for awhile, stay away from other people. Then there was some decent rain, as the season…

Eventually I knew that I’d do a coffee outside as part of my 2023 Coffeeneuring Challenge. But going into this one, I didn’t realize it was going to be a solo endeavor. Word came down late on Friday about the whereabouts of Saturday’s weekly PDX Coffee Outside. It would be on the Eastbank Esplanade on the Willamette River, next to Fire Station 21 by the Hawthorne Bridge. I hadn’t been to a…

Coffeeneuring is an annual challenge that I’ve done for ten years. Headed up by Mary Gersema over at Chasing Mailboxes DC, the challenge consists of riding to seven different coffee locations (or a coffee outside) during the time frame (this year it’s October 7th through November 20th), a maximum of two rides a week. (Why yes, this challenge has inspired the challenges I do!) It’s always nice to…