Good Coffee Addiction

I started drinking coffee at JPs when I was 16. First it was an attempt to be older, cooler than I actually was. Then it was to avoid being at home. I would camp out at JPs for hours at a time. Drinking and drinking. Then it became full blown coffee addiction. Unfortunately this is also an addiction to good coffee. Folgers and Maxwell House won't do. I hate Starbucks and their acid black liquid. But I dig the small houses and Dunkin Donuts. Dunkin Donuts doesn't have shops in SoCal, so we buy it online and have it delivered, 40 lbs. at a time. Whole bean. Recently, I've been introduced to Peets. They make a good coffee. I brew my own, with fresh ground whole beans in the morning. It's too expensive to drink at the shops anymore. So on the road trip, Carlie (who shares my addiction to good coffee) devised a coffee brewing method so that we wouldn't have to drink gas station coffee. The little thermos plugged into the cigarette lighter and would heat the water. Then we would pour the water over grounds and into our travel mugs. All while in the car! It was a great! Good coffee and cheap. Of course by the end of the trip we were tired and would get hot water from gas stations instead of waiting 20 minutes for the thermos to heat it. And eventually, we did drink shit coffee from the gas stations out of desperation. Well, my coffee pot just beeped so the coffee is done. Better go drink some.