Making my morning coffee in Dominican Republic...

[Kbeitz]

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=A7wEJJbfYGs

[WV Sawmiller]

Kbeitz,

   The only time I was in the DR was for lunch on a visa trip. We were building the US Embassy in Haiti and my 90 day visa was expiring so a co-worker and I drove across the border, had lunch and came back with a new visa.  I remember a small child of one of the workers at the Customs desk on the DR saw me and got excited and ran back and returned with a Christmas ornament of St Nick and was yelling Father Christmas, Father Christmas. I was getting a little shaggy and had not trimmed my beard in a couple of months and the little girl thought I was Santa Claus. My co-worker got a kick out of it.

   You guys have a great time there and I hope you get to see all your family and friends.

[paul case]

That make youtube come up with ''NO VIDEOS FOUND'' on my computer.

Did you have no coffee in the DR?

PC

[Kbeitz]

Is this better?

https://youtu.be/A7wEJJbfYGs

[nativewolf]

Man, that is fresh coffee.  Do they roast themselves?  Or are they growing coffee, drying, roasting, etc. 

I'm a coffee fanatic and spent many years traveling around the tropics;  really enjoyed the video. 

[WV Sawmiller]

Kbeitz,

   I could not get to the video in first post either. That is cool using a mortar and pestle to grind coffee. When I worked in Cameroon and Guinea in west Africa M&P were common household untensils and I saw them used for most everything, Used on corn, rice, cassava, and once even to make plum juice. They had small once for spices.

   A few weeks before I left Guinea we had a young lady co-worker visit the camp. At days end I told her I was going to walk to town nearby and she asked if she could go and if okay to bring a camera as she had no pictures. The idiots at HQ had told her the people did not like having their pictures made. I told her they love it - just ask fist. We wen through the local market then I took her through the residential area and down by the river where people were collecting and hauling sand, making concrete blocks etc. You'd have thought she was a rock star. All the people wanted their picture made, joined in with her and just laughed when they saw themselves on the viewer. We were invited into their homes. I think one family let her help pound dinner in their M&P. She had a blast I thought it was a hoot watching her interface with them. I looked through some of my pictures but could not find them in the hundreds there but here is a typical village scene where they were using a M&P.


 
20 Nov 2012 Near Forecariah in Guinea West Africa

   Old mortars would crack then be used for stools or to set things on by the road to sell. I saw one tourist camp in Namibia (Roy's Camp) where his whole restaurant area used old cracked mortars for stools and bar stools around the tables and bar.

[btulloh]

Nice video, KB.  Thanks for sharing.

[samandothers]

I sure am happy to have my coffee grinder!  Enjoy your trip.

[Kbeitz]

Man, that is fresh coffee.  Do they roast themselves?  Or are they growing coffee, drying, roasting, etc. 

I'm a coffee fanatic and spent many years traveling around the tropics;  really enjoyed the video.

Roasted on this country cook stove...

https://youtu.be/5_V8C3DM-VI

[coxy]

 I don't drink coffee but that was neat thanks for sharing  by the way who is tending to the junk yard  if your there   :D

[Kbeitz]

I don't drink coffee but that was neat thanks for sharing  by the way who is tending to the junk yard  if your there   :D

Some times you just gotta take a loss...

[trapper]

thanks for the videos