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Well... this post is WAY late... but it needs to be written... so here it goes.
Josh and I were talking in the kitchen way back when (the kitchen in the Hammac Hostel is a breading ground for strange conversation), and somehow we got to kicking around the idea of making coffee in the garage... and giving it away. What? Yup, the idea was basically, share our love of great coffees, and spark some interaction in our neighborhood. Think of it like a grown up lemonade stand with a social experiment twist.
Why would we feel the need to do this? Vallejo suffers from a bit of a... shall we say... PR problem. You might have seen it on the news for going bankrupt, or heard about a crime happening here (or who knows what). However, that doesn't mean that people walking around the neighborhood aren't technically still neighbors. Why should we buy into the idea that everyone walking around who doesn't look like us is to be feared? And from a coffee standpoint... why should we buy into the idea that beautiful coffee is only for a certain demographic? So, we decided we would try a coffee/community experiment. Josh had to go it alone on a number of attempts, as I was all over the country doing whatever it is that I do when I am all over the country. There was not instant success. One, people don't walk around all that much anymore, and two... those who do are a little suspicious of a grown man sitting in his drive way giving ANYTHING away... much less coffee made on the spot. Our hope was that this Saturday when we both could open up the garage... we would finally serve up some coffee, and a little community interaction.
Stay tuned for the rest of the story...
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