Communitry Coffee

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One of the toughest things about travel for me is the separation from high-speed internet access. It is a pleasure to find "free" high-speed access in a town on the road. It is a joy to find it in a place that I would visit anyway. Such is my joy this morning.

I am writing this from a CC's coffee house in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I have some embarassment for CC's. It is based on Community Coffee - an old Louisiana brand of coffee. Community, like several other Louisiana brands, serves a mixture of coffee and chicory. Chicory is a root that some poor folks in Louisiana discovered would add a little flavor to coffee and, what is really important for poor folks, stretch the coffee so they could drink more for the same money.

So, CC's is based on a proud heritage, but in many ways is a knock-off on Starbucks. They even use the "Tall, Grande, whatever" scheme instead of "small, medium, and large."

Whatever, I like the coffee here better than Starbucks (sorry Seatle), and the internet service is fine and free (Starbucks charges).

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Community Coffee
Some pleasures of travel