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Dog River Coffee - Hood River OR

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Dog River Coffee - Hood River, OR A few weeks back we travel to Oregon to attend the wedding of one of our nieces.  The wedding took place in Mosier, OR.  This little town sits on the east end of the Columbia River Gorge.  A national scenic area that separates Oregon and Washington.   We stayed the weekend in a nice Air BnB in the town of Hood River.  This mecca for wind surfing has developed into a prime tourist location.  One of the spots that I immediately wanted to try was the Dog River Coffee Company.   Located on the main east/west route through the central part of it immediately caught my eye.  I knew I would have to try it out. Sunday morning was cool and even a bit damp.  Fabrece was more interested in staying in bed so I made my way to Dog River on my own. Atmosphere Like much of this historic downtown, the Dog River Coffee Company is inside a converted shop front.  This provides them with ample interior space.  Numerous large tables offers plenty of seating w
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Hob Coffee - Poway, CA

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Hob Coffee - Poway, CA During the Kid's coffee adventures he came across Hob Coffee.  Located in a non-descriptive strip mall in Poway, California, Hob Coffee would seemingly be similar to the endless number of local coffee shops trying to carve out an existence while competing against Starbucks or Peet's. Hob has a seemingly simple business model, offer a great cup of coffee and locally themed specialty drinks. Started by a group of declared "Coffeeheads" who enjoy high quality coffee and want to share it with the community. They typically carry 3-4 single origin beans that can be tasted in a variety of brew methods. Atmosphere HOB coffee is in a unique location in the corner of a little strip mall. There is ample parking, some outside seating, and seating inside. This isn't a large location and with people sitting, waiting for coffee, and waiting in line to order, the space can fill up quickly. There is a shelf area that holds beans, coffee brewing equipm
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Copa Vida - Sorrento Valley, CA

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Copa Vida - Sorrento Valley Copa Vida is a team of baristas and tea lovers that have a close relationship with the community they serve and the farmers they work with. They strive on being transparent and sourcing quality materials. This means working with Direct Trade or Fair Trade roasters and tea companies. They are also members of the Specialty Coffee Association of America. Copa Vida has three locations in San Diego county, but today we will be focusing on their Sorrento Valley location (11055 Roselle St, San Diego, CA 92121).   The Sorrento Valley location is a little difficult bit of a challenge to find as it is located west of the Coaster tracks.  Looks for the sign.  :-) Atmosphere Pulling up to this location there is ample parking that it shares with a couple other businesses. Walking into the shop the room is large open space with a counter that wraps around. On the sides there are shelves with roasted beans and coffee brewing products for sale. The seating area is
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Bike the Bay+Gravel

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Bike the Bay By Fabrece and Rolly This ride is one of two, I believe, during which you get to ride across the Coronado.  It is a ride the recreational cyclist like, because of that fact and also that the ride, other then the bridge is FLAT.  The ride supports the San Diego Biking Coalition, a group that supports biking as a means of transportation as well as recreation. The route: I thought the route was a pretty standard for San Diego Bay. It was a mostly flat ride and the ride by the numbers was 33 miles and 817ft of climbing. This is including the gravel section.  . The two note worthy sections were crossing the bridge and the gravel section. Both of which were new to me and a cool experience. There was a steep sharp turn to get on the bridge and the climb lasted about a mile. The opportunity to ride the bridge and view it provides makes the ride. The gravel portion was a nice surprise about halfway into the ride. It started off has hard compact dirt which slowly turned into
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Location: Coronado, CA, USA
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Savagewood Brewery - Scripps Ranch, CA

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Savagewood Brewing Co . Looking over what we have posted, I thought it was time to highlight one of our local breweries and discuss Cervesas.  Savagewood is a recent entrant is the brewery scene in the neighborhood.  They bought out O'Sullivan Brother's about 18 months ago.  We enjoyed O'Sullivan Brothers as they had a number of good malty beers and didn't simply try to appeal to the IPA mainstream here in San Diego.  Unfortunately, that may have contributed to the ultimate selling of the resources to Savagewood. Savagewood is your typical brewer who sets up shop in the commercial building where the majority of the space is taken up on the brewing equipment and the remaining space is turned into a "tasting room".  Once Savagewood took over the O'Sullivan Brother's space, they painted the walls and changed the look, seeking a younger, more hip vibe. We hadn't been to Savagewood in several months, still pining from the loss of O'Sulliv
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Location: 9859 Hibert St, San Diego, CA 92131, USA
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Coffee Cycle

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COFFEE CYCLE  The Kid has been doing Coffee Rides around San Diego going on two years now.  He and a good friend from the velodrome have explored many of the Arabica Beans haunts north of downtown. For a true coffee experience, meaning no sugar and cream laced grande mixture over ice, Coffee Cycle is a place to try out.  They do offer Lattes and Mochas, but their specialty is a pour over of one of the 4-6 specialty roast procured locally. Located in the Pacific Beach area of San Diego, 1632 Grand Ave, SD CA 92109, its relatively small size and limited seating work well for the grab and go tourist and beach goers of the area. Car parking is limited, but bike parking is ample, so to speak. Chris, the owner, is a coffee nut. He started the business from a bicycle cart before relocating the cart permanently into its' current location. Chris takes pride is producing a fine, tasty cup of coffee.  The beans for each pour over order have been previously weighed out and stored is a
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4th of July, Old Pros Ride

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Scripps Ranch Old Pros - 4th of July Ride Every 4th of July the Scripps Ranch Old Pros host a 10k race/ fun run and a bike ride. This event has become a tradition in the Roup household whether we partake in the 10K run, which The Boss has done several times, or 50 mile ride now our fancy. The start and finish for the ride are in Scripps Ranch, about a mile from the house, making it a convenient event to ride. The 50 mile ride can be very fast ride, the streets our usually pretty empty on the 4th at that time of the morning and the event draws some very fast riders from of area due its' relatively small entrance fee and free beer garden at the end.  The Boss and the Motivator had two goals this year; stay with the front group until you're dropped and finish under 2 hours and 45 minutes. On July 3rd, ride bibs were picked up, bikes were prepped, and gear was laid out, to make the 7am start easier. The event as told by Fabrece: Early start at 5:30 to make sure everything w
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Location: 10691 Canyon Lake Dr, San Diego, CA 92131, USA
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