This is a guest post from nomadic baristas Jess & Andy. Noosa has great local baristas, but we think they might also be intrigued by Jess and Andy’s story. ON reckons we can learn much from their marketing drive – which is a fresh social media brew born of necessity for a life style on the go.
Hello Noosa!
We are Jess & Andy, nomadic baristas all the way from Melbourne.
Being the adventure seekers that we are, we decided last year to quit our jobs and pack up everything into our 1983 Toyota Hiace campervan, Saffy, and live life on the road with the plan to travel Australia and bring delicious speciality coffee along for the ride. We’ve been on the road for 5 months, covering the coast of New South Wales and we now have Noosa in our sights. We are trading out of our beautiful custom built vintage style caravan, Roscoe!
We are loving living life at a slower pace. Being from Melbourne we found everyone to be so rushed. It got exhausting in the rat race just trying to keep up.
From a work perspective, we love that we’re not super busy with lines out the door as we can engage in short conversations with our customers, share our story and really get to know them, their order and little snapshots into their life and locations. This to us is the best part of our job.
Then there are the afternoons. Work is done and then it’s all about exploring the local areas enjoying local food and drinks. It even feels like there are more hours in the day whilst on the road than back in Melbourne.
Starting a business and hitting the road leaving behind the comforts, income and stability of home was a scary move. But life’s short and we had nothing holding us back in Melbourne. No kids, no mortgage, not pets, so we thought why not!
We’d been in our jobs for a long time. Andy had been working as a high-rise window cleaner, hanging off buildings and abseiling on and off for over 10 years as well as some freelance graphic design work here and there. I had been in hospitality my whole life, managing resorts, bars, events and teaching. We both got to the point in our jobs where we were not learning anything new and we needed to be challenged. Round & Round allowed us to combine our passions, play to our strengths and develop new skills.
We love that each week we are in a new town and a new community of people. We get tips from locals on what to see that is different from the main tourist hot spots. Some locals we’ve met have even taken us on tours around their towns, where we’d get to see places we wouldn’t normally venture to. We find out who’s roasting the best coffee, who’s brewing the best beer, who makes the best burgers and we indulge. We also try give back to local communities. We’ve gone to charity fundraisers, give our coffee grounds to community gardens, source local products for the business and showcase the towns we visit on our social media platform. It’s win-win!
We hope this little snapshot into our life on the road can inspire others to do the same and feel that they too can be their own boss and live life to the fullest!
You can find us in Noosa at Noosa Caravan Park, Tewantin from Friday May 4th until Wednesday May 9th and Noosa River Holiday Park in Noosaville from Friday May 18th until Wednesday May 23rd between 7 and 11am-ish.
Or follow our journey here:
https://facebook.com/roundandroundcoffee
https://instagram.com/roundandroundcoffee
https://www.roundandround.com.au
