Budget: Beattie's Trailside Lodge, 115 Coffee House Road, Killington, (800) 447-2209, fax (802) 422-5060, www.trailsidelodge.com, is an old-fashioned ski lodge.
Most mornings, I rose just after dawn and shuffled over to the main lodge for a coffee.
When our trip began last year in March, we gathered at a coffee plantation lodge on the outskirts of Arusha, a city near the northern border with Kenya, for a briefing from Mr. Thornton, a 38-year-old New York native who lives in Cape Town and has been guiding Tanzania excursions for more than a decade.
Birding lodges should have proper coffee, since birding demands early morning wake-ups.
Classic Trekking to the Ciudad Perdida (lost city of the Tayrona); Parque Nacional Tayrona beaches; art galleries of Cartagena; coffee region lodges.
First, we were poured glasses of fresh, steely manzanilla from stainless steel coffee pots lodged in beds of ice and given a plate of fat olives, crunchy capers and vinegary garlic cloves.
There was a moment, back in 2005, when modders uncovered the sex-simulating "Hot Coffee" minigame lodged deep in the code of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, where it seemed that GTA was about to crash and burn.
SaSaab On the banks of Kenya's Ewaso Nyiro river, this lodge (above) offers an uplifting coffee scrub after a long day spent on a dusty camel-back sojourn.
The eight-room eco-lodge supports a collective of coffee farmers and has cleverly used detritus from local villages in its design.
On the mountain, Restaurant Ace does good chilli beef and rice, Lookout offers burgers and noodles, and there's good coffee at Hirafu base lodge (brace yourself for the $20 bill you must hand over for three of them).
