I've seen these cute little drive-thru coffee shacks on two different trips now -- in and around Anchorage and also Seattle.

They look like garden sheds, only spiffed up. You'll find them in suburban shopping mall parking lots and tucked around the bend on country roads.

This isn't one of the better ones I saw, just the one I saw when I had my camera in hand. Some are shaped like coffee pots. Others have cute names that play on coffee words like mocha and espresso. They're often decorated with crazy bumper stickers and/or signs.

It must be a Pacific Northwest thing. But seriously, why don't we have these on the East Coast?

We have drive-thru everything else these days.