hidbey Island, Washington, in September 1991, while sitting in an Adirondack chair. Bill was working at The Boeing Company at the time and wasn't finding much of a future there. So he decided to become a barista. His journey to becoming an excellent barista would take him to Santa Fe, New Mexico; Summerville, South Carolina; Whitehall, New York, and back again to Santa Fe. This book tells everything he went through along the way, almost.