Coffeeneuring #6: PC at dawn

The planned event for Saturday was a 200km group permanent with my PDX-area rando friend Lynne, who took Amtrak down Friday night and stayed with us, and my Eugene-area rando friend Lesli.   The starting point was a supermarket known variously as "PC" or "Market of Choice."  Originally it was "Price Chopper," but gradually it moved into a higher-end, more organic/local/enthusiast market niche, for which the old name was unsuitable.  So for a while it was "PC Market of Choice", on its way to being "Market of Choice".  It's still "PC" to many long-term Eugeneans, but signage and bags all say "Market of Choice", and increasingly that is what everyone calls it.

Market of Choice has a coffee bar.  Not an embedded Starbucks, but its own coffee bar.  And when we reached the start point, Lynne noted that we had ridden (just barely) more than two miles from my home.   While stopping for coffee on a brevet does not count as coffeeneuring, one may coffeeneur on the same day as a brevet.  The randos of my acquaintance have universally interpreted the rules as counting the ride to the ride as a separate event, on which one may coffeeneur.  So we declared a coffeeneuring opportunity, and went in.


I had drunk two double caffe lattes at home before we set out, so I ordered hot chocolate. Lynne had single caffe lattes with breakfast, which may have left her capacity for one more, and I think Lesli also ordered coffee. It was dark when we entered PC, and daylight when we emerged.

Coffeeneuring data: 26 October 2013, 2.somesmallnumber miles, hot chocolate