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Coffee Traveling

I think I've already had over 10,000 cups of Coffee.
Sometimes cafe latte, sometimes kiwi latte, sometimes flat white coffee and cafe mocha, sometimes americano and matcha latte, sometimes soi latte and soi mocha. Sometimes shallow roast, sometimes medium deep roast, sometimes deep roast. They are all different and all good.

Coffee can be found in Central and South America, Asia, Africa, and India.
I have never been to most of the countries, and I wonder if I will die without going there.
I sometimes wonder if I will die without going there.

When I drank coffee as a child, it tasted bad. I felt it was bad.
I felt like my stomach was going crazy when I drank it, and I really felt that I couldn't drink it because it was just so bad. That was when I was 20 years old.
I went to Starbucks when I was studying abroad, but I don't remember if it was good or not.
But for a while, I think I was drinking café lattes or something with milk in it. At some point, shallow roasted coffee became popular, and I started to drink it black, and I started to think it tasted good, and before I knew it, I was drinking it.
I have stopped drinking alcohol, but I still drink coffee.

I would like to try coffee labeling, but I have an image of El Salvador as a scary country in terms of security. There are prisons and it is very scary.
The world is a very big place, and when I was watching the opening ceremony of the Olympics, there were many countries I didn't know. I would like to say that I am Japanese, but when I went to India, there were many people who did not know Japan. Oh, no? You don't know Japan? I thought to myself, "But it is one of many countries, and I think there are many people who never leave their village, let alone their own country, for the rest of their lives.

In such a situation, drinking coffee allows you to travel. A journey of beans, a journey of taste. Now I even know where the beans come from, so I can drink coffee as if I am on a trip, like I am in El Salvador today and Kenya tomorrow.
I am very happy. Blended coffee is not bad, but it is easier to think about it when you know the country. I don't understand a single millimeter of the African language, but I wish I could tell people how good it tastes.

I have drunk more than 10,000 cups of coffee so far, and many countries have been included in them.
That cup of coffee I drank when I was feeling down must have been filled with a message from Ethiopia, and that cup of Kopi Luwak I drank when I was crying and depressed must have been filled with warmth from Indonesia.
Even though it is difficult to travel to 70 countries, there is always warmth by my side.
People sometimes feel lonely and isolated. Sometimes things don't go our way and we feel as if we are the only one on earth. But 10,000, or even 100,000 cups of coffee will not make you lonely. Coffee is made through the hands of many people. Coffee friends and coffee buddies.

Whether it is a lonely night or a happy day, coffee is always with you.

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