Just thought I’d show my little office coffee set up. Pretty small footprint and beats the heck out of driving all of the way to Blacksburg from Salem every morning to find a good cup of coffee. Good thing I know a good roaster to keep me in beans 
We are in the process of editing and uploading the photos from our Brazil trip. As soon as the full gallery of images is finished we will post a link here. We are also planning a Blacksburg area event complete with slideshow and videos, cachaca, caipirinha and, of course, coffee from the FAF region.
Who are these people and why do they call their coffee Bob-O-Link? Find out here:
Cachaça
Cinnamon (leaves)
Ginger
Sugar
Cloves
Sunburned and pleasantly exhausted from a day of touring Bobolink farms and potential Bobolink farms with Marcos Croce of Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza. The landscape is almost overwhelmingly beautiful as are the people who live in it. I hope we can do some serious work to sell these coffees when we return to Virginia because the work being done here by FAF and the individual farmers deserves a matched effort from the roasters and importers on this trip.
I probably don't need to explain the lack of updates from Houston to FAF. We've been driving pretty hard, covering five farms in two states over 5 days. The good news is we have thousands of pictures and a ton of video to edit when we return. The hard kilometers down rutted, dusty roads were worth every bump just to arrive here at FAF. We've seen modern processing and huge commercial farms. Today we will see small farms and learn about a different approach to coffee and we will enjoy more of the generosity and hospitality of the Brazilian people. And probably sip a few caipirinhas.
Waiting for the Rev. Waiting to hear from Brian. Hoping he hasn't had his mail forwarded to Houston. Took a ton of photos from the coffee show here in Sao Paulo. Trying not to enjoy ourselves too much, despite the valiant efforts of BRASC and NUCOFFEE and the Brazilian people. Watched barista competitions, got a demo of Bunn's crazy one-cup brewer and had cachaça shots at a hole-in-the-wall we are calling Ten Points. Waiting for the Rev. Houston?
This ragged document prevented Brian from boarding the plane to Sao Paulo. Airline is trying to get it straightened out, but in the meantime he can't travel with the rest of us. This same document earned him a seat on the flight from Charlotte and secured his Brazil Visa. Anybody else have a problem with this?
