Its spring and my wife and I are in motorcycle mode.
We’re doing a bit of mental inventory, deciding what we will need for the upcoming motorcycle season. We have a few items we think would be handy that we want to pick up but the biggest conundrum for us has been whether to pick up a hand grinder or not….
Coffee. Our great dilemma.
Yep! Our biggest brain twister so far this year has been coffee!
I have found some really well reviewed and recommended hand coffee grinders, like the Porlex Coffee Grinder, but we are really undecided. We do have a budget, and something like a hand grinder for coffee seems really ridiculous, but it is really nice to have something luxurious (like fresh ground coffee in the morning) to make the sacrifices of a harsh budget a little more tolerable.
But there is more to it than just budget, there is space, and weight. Not just of the grinder, but the pots / percolators as well. When you factor in all the extra bits, buying ground coffee (or just forgoing coffee in the mornings) seems a little more reasonable.
Truth is, we probably won’t get a grinder, but we probably will get a percolator / coffee pot and use pre-ground. For christmas my in-laws got me a gift certificate for a local outdoor store, and I haven’t used it yet. It seems like a good idea, I haven’t been a coffee drinker for long, (thats a whole separate blog post, and probably not in my bike blog) but I find that it is a really nice thing to get things started in the morning.
I also have this vision in my head of waking up, climbing out of the tent, and standing with a fresh cup of coffee, looking at some lake or other, with my bike in the background…
Its gonna make a great photo…..
I grind daily at home but pre grind / buy ground coffee when at Salt Spring and I can’t tell the difference even though I drink a black espresso drawn long.
If you add milk or sugar I challenge you to tell the difference between the same bean being fresh ground and ground last week and kept in a dark airtight container.
Ya, thats probably what we’ll do ourselves. Mostly I think this is just a case of us (or more accurately: “me”) trying to find some distraction until we can actually get on our bikes and get camping again. So why not blow something simple way out of proportion?!?! *LOL*
But you do never know; someone may have a brilliant idea that you had never thought off! It doesn’t hurt to put these things out there sometimes!