We love coffee. We love each other. We love to travel. We love learning. When these powers combine we are…(drum roll, please)…COFFEE IN ACTION!! Trumpets blare, the clouds part and angels sing a heavenly choir.
No, no…it is nothing that dramatic. Quite simply: we are two friends on a road trip to learn about coffee, community, and sustainability in the coffee industry.
Starting mid-February, we will be traveling around the US to experience small coffee businesses that are involved in their local community while also contributing to the improvement of the global coffee industry. We are especially interested in environmental sustainability (still working on getting and converting a car to vegetable oil) and social responsibility. Below is a list of the cities we will hit on our journey.
If you know about good coffee shops, important organizations to visit, or people wanting one-day volunteers, please let us know.
Thanks for reading (and wish us luck on our first ever blog!)
- Melanie & Sara
- Media, PA (Fair Trade Town)
- Baltimore, MD
- Washington, DC
- Lexington, VA
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Raleigh, NC
- Asheville, NC
- New Market, TN
- Atlanta, GA
- Leeds, AL
- New Orleans, LA
- Houston, TX
- Austin, TX
- Fort Worth, TX
- Oklahoma City, OK
- Albuquerque, NM
- Santa Fe, NM
- Denver, CO
- Boulder, CO
- Omaha, NE
- Des Moines, IA
- Chicago, IL
- Ann Arbor, MI
- Cleveland, OH
- WESTERN NY
- Amherst, MA (Fair Trade Town)
- WESTERN MA
- Brattleboro, VT (Fair Trade Town)
Hey Melanie,
Good luck with everything! What an adventure! It’ll be fun to read about your learning experience. Are you doing this for your practicum as well or just for a love of life and coffee?
All the best;)
wowsh,that great.i’ll love reading about ya trip…..and am…the blog is great.
Good luck gals! Sara, you continue to make me seem like my life is boring and meaningless….ok, that’s an overstatement, but you are super-cool, still!
Also, I think your wordpress blog and mine use the same template, ha!
Cool beans, guys. Pun pathetic and intended.
–Susie
Hey Sara, How jealous I am of this upcoming adventure. I look forward to reading your travel stories and learning thru your experiences!
I see you have a few fair trade towns listed on your site, and wanted to share with you that there is a fair trade town near where I live in Ottawa. It’s called Wakefield, and it’s in the province of Quebec. Groovy little village! So if you care to extend your travels from Vermont up this way – let me know and I can send you more info!
Happy trails!
Kristy
Is there a scratch-and-sniff option to this blog? Seems a shame to have a blog about coffee without actually being able to smell and taste it…!
Wonderful entries, thanks for doing this!
-Jenna from SIT PIM Admissions
Hi ladies,
Sounds like you’re having a fabulous time – I love reading your blog, and I sure hope it turns into something like a book deal when you come home!
Well, I’m going to go brew my Sunday morning pot of coffee right now.
Bottoms up,
Steph