To add to this coffee thread, REI makes a human powered coffee grinder for
those "Westy Mornings".

Joe

>From: "Alan J. Flint" <ajflint@ITSA.UCSF.EDU>
>Reply-To: "Alan J. Flint" <ajflint@ITSA.UCSF.EDU>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: The evening's ramblings
>Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 19:39:28 -0800
>
>         Just trying to get some work done tonight, but since I left my
>mailbox
>open, the recent discussion has bee a pleasant distraction.
>         When I was contemplating the purchase of a Vanagon with an engine
>that sounded like it needed a rebuild, Bob Donalds gave me some good
>advise (don't buy it), for free of course.  Thanks Bob.  I have the good
>fortune of living just three towns away from Boston Engine, so when it
>comes time for my 2.1 Waterboxer to be rebuilt, I can just drop it into
>the (Rabbit) pickup, and take it over.
>         Good coffee is an important part of Westfalia camping, or any
>camping for that matter.  I defer to my colleagues in the
>Seattle/Vancouver area.  Myself, I use the Melita to insulate steel mug
>method.  Now, who has a bean grinder that runs on 12V power?
>         We keep no devices on hand for midnight facilities.  We are the
>ones you hear outside in the middle of the sub-freezing night.
>         I think the guy in Marin who was looking for a good Vanagon
>mechanic actually own a whole fleet of Westfalias (for rent).  If he
>doesn't have a competent mechanic, is there much hope for the rest of us?
>         Obviously, I can only remember the threads with minimal Vanagon
>content (like my own post).  Got to get home to see if my circuit breakers
>have arrived by UPS (to wire the barn, to heat the shop, to work on the
>Camper, to let it give us another season of cruising around in our VW home
>away from home.
>
>Alan.
>Shrewsbury.
>'87 Syncro
>

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