Sweet Maria's Coffee

I really was on the fence about uploading this episode. One the one hand, this is stuff I have already said, about photography and coffee travel, about marketing, about representation. It feels like I am just hung up on this. Does anyone care? On the other hand, the second part of this is about a conflict I got into in Shakiso for taking a photo with my phone. And I kinda spun out on it. I think of podcasts as a thing where people want to hear someone talk clearly and with great confidence. That’s not how I feel. But I am deciding to go ahead and post this long recording, because people can always just stop listening if they don’t like it. You decide!  Intro: I end up thinking a lot about photography and coffee travel. Taking pictures is an important part of documenting my trip (and also tagging photo locations with the camera GPS). But for me, it is complicated by things I can’t ignore. I guess since I have a masters in photo from my time in Chicago, it makes sense I am going to be aware of what it means to