The new girlfriend in my life and my wife doesn’t mind!

At ease! It’s not actually what you’re thinking.
Mary and I just got back from a trip to Minneapolis for the Midwest Roaster Group meeting at Café Imports. It was such a pleasant drive. The scenery was amazing; leaves were changing, huge windmills and a missing bridge. Huh?

So where does this new girlfriend come in? Well, her name is Mandy. So on the trip it was Mandy this Mandy that! So who is Mandy? Ok, Mandy is the voice of my new TomTom GPS navigator. It became the dominate conversation that we must listen and act as Mandy says. I must agree Mandy was spot on the whole trip.

What was amazing was that the GPS took out all the worry of trying to figure out what exit or turn to make. And if you’ve been to Minneapolis, you know there are many offshoots to different freeways and connecting roads. There were a few mistakes on my part, and the on going joke was that we were going to make Mandy mad!

Our first incident was on our trip to visit Peace Coffee. I plugged in the address off we went. On one of the turns that Mandy suggested, the road was blocked. So we made the reroute per the construction signs and Mandy recalculated. As we were driving past the construction signs we noticed that something seemed out of place. It was the freeway bridge that had collapsed back in August. Wow, an amazing yet tragic site to see. So surreal.

Our visit at Peace Coffee was really nice. The building where they are located was heavily inundated renewable & sustainable technology companies. The roof top had solar panels and a roof top garden. Talk about my dream of sustainable energy. I would love to have those panels and a fleet of electric vans to do my local deliveries. Since peace coffee is within the city limits, they do all local deliveries via bicycles. I’m sure Mary would like to see my butt on a bike here in Indianapolis. She knows I need that exercise.

The meet up at Café Imports was great. Emily and Jamin were great host. We did a cupping on each others coffees and we played with their Clover Coffee Brewer. Good times for all. Not enough time because I could hang there forever with the smell of green coffee – it’s sweet and succulent.

Now it’s back to work. I’ve been working on our Holiday offerings. They are under the coffee section of our website at the moment. We are offering a private label options on these coffee. Check it out! Call us if you have specific needs.

Oh yeah! How many days till Christmas?