Once Upon a Time
It all started once upon a time when my cocktail bar trailer the unique and very beautiful Troubardour (a story that merits its own post) crash landed on a small and beautiful coffee farm in the green mountains of San Ramón, Costa Rica. (It was pretty much like a shipwreck, but with a cocktail bar on wheels.)
It's a true story of fate and adventure that just like a good telenovela began innocently and accidentally one beautiful sunny morning with a hot date, a foxy blonde and a cool waterfall, and which somehow ended at night in the unplanned discovery of an upcoming real life adventure awaiting me in a coffee farm deep in the mountains of Costa Rica.
When I woke up at the farm for the first time I noticed there was a big sign in the entrance that said it was established in 1977. That my friends, was an omen — since I came to the earth on that very same year. The moment I walked in and met Carlos — the owner and coffee man of the farm — we knew we had entered into a beautiful and true loyal friendship and partnership. We knew we were going to do something together, we just didn't know what.
Our future was of course, right under our noses the entire time — we were going to be destined to share the very special and undiscovered coffee of the farm with the rest of the world.
When looking at life in reverse it is always interesting to see that some of the doors and pathways that you must cross in your life adventure are usually cracked open by small accidents that seem to be totally unrelated. This in turn gets triggered by the art of letting go, and doing things that you normally wouldn't do, much like raising the sail on your boat and letting it take you anywhere but here. Sometimes the best plan is to have no plan and just let shit happen to you.
I had no idea I was going to get into selling coffee, it took one whole year with the Troubardour bar just dusting there in the farm for the idea to sink in.
When I arrived in Costa Rica last year I had no plans or prospects and I was actually feeling quite down so I decided to just drive around into nature with the wind behind my back in my loyal truck 'The Great White'.
It didn't take long for fate to take control of my steering wheel and lead me to a volcano where I was invited to partake in a spiritual ceremony which let to a vision. And by vision I mean a full HD download, which was to create this very special coffee company. Troubardour wasn't after all a cocktail bar, it was a coffee company with a cocktail bar.
What I thought was a business failure (my bar) and a mistake, ended up being exactly what had to happen at the right time, at the right place, with the right people.
Troubardour Coffee was born during Covid-19 and it felt natural to create good out of chaos, much like mushrooms grow and feed from the death in nature.
So here's the company, here's the idea, and here's the coffee, manifested out of thin air with the abundance of unlimited provided by the path less travelled. If you're reading this then it means you're inside my dream, and I thank you for that.
We found the coffee
As far as I am concerned, this company used me to create itself. I feel joy because I am selling something I am proud of, that originates from the beautiful land where I was born.
I hope that drinking Troubardour and falling in love with the process of making coffee helps you attract your muse and manifest new, richer things in your life so that the next years become the very best years, the richest, most interesting, intense, loving and pleasurable moments all around of your life.
