Introduction

Hello everybody!  Welcome to our blog “From Beervana to Bunatopia.”  A quick note about the name: “beervana,” as those of you back home you probably already know, is one of the many names for our beloved hometown Portland, Oregon, and “buna” is the Amharic word for coffee.  Ethiopia is considered by most officiandos to be the birthplace of coffee.  It made sense to bring the names of these two terrific brews together in our blog, seeing as we both love them so much.

Posts that begin with a “J-” were written by Jessie, and posts that begin with a “D-” were written by Donovan.  We’re going to be sharing this web space so that we can bring you, our reader(s), more than one point of view on our life and times in Ethiopia.