‘Tis the Season… Coffee/teaneurring is here. Read all about it for all the information.
https://chasingmailboxes.com/2025/09/29/coffeeneuring-challenge-2025-youre-only-15-once/
The challenge begins on 10/11/25 and I will do a training ride before it begins ;’-).
Training 10/4/2025 (Boeing Business Park)
My first training for this year’s event was to join in on National Coffee Outside Day. I ride all year, but seldom do a coffee/tea stop, so I need training in being prepared 🙄
I feel like an interloper however: I don’t drink coffee, I don’t bring a stove to heat water/perc coffee at the site, I don’t meet a group early in the morning at a park to drink coffee. All that is what true ‘coffee outsiders’ do. As atonement, I did bring a thermos of hot water from home, and a way to brew my loose leaf tea, and brought my Keep Cup. And I DID drink tea outside 😊.
A KIST event — Kept It Simply Tea as I did not include any goodies or other food. I don’t need the extra food at this mid morning hour, this would be a slightly longer ride and I had less time to linger over my break, it was a bit cool for sitting around so I wanted to keep moving.
I am not planning to have a theme for this challenge as that sometimes adds more complications for me for a simple tea stop. Maybe KIST will be it, and when I do add goodies it could be KIST+.
10/10/25 WE BEGIN ;’-) Mukilteo WA, picnic table by City Hall
“Tea-ing” off with #1 Soft Launch
I am happy that Mary has provided us with an early start option as we will be driving Grandgirl Kate for visits with her cousins and shortly afterward, to the airport for her return home in Northern California. And I would like to be at the kick-off for our event. Thus, I am doing the Early Soft Launch for my Teaneurring challenge 2025.
The first part of that involves being home in time today for last minute preparations and a shower before the drive to the weekend cousin visit, so I had to be quick about ‘tea-ing’ off this morning. My training day last week helped me be ready for take off! My thermos full of hot water, my loose leaf tea and keep cup awaited my departure.
I have had in mind a stop here at this lovely covered picnic table by City Hall. Though I pass it often on my rides leaving from home, it is not at the ideal point in my ride for a stop. This morning I made the stop at the beginning of the route I have chosen for the day. This would be another KIST event as my time was limited by obligation, but ‘Keep It Simply Tea’ worked just fine as I had breakfast before leaving for the ride.
To keep this post from being oh so long, I will post this start now and continue with more tea stops as I go along. I just want you all to know what I am doing, and maybe you will want to do it too ;’-).
Adventures with Nancy 