Brief (coffeeyo.com): At the Baili Dujuan RV camping base, what’s not lacking is mountain freshness — but one aroma stands apart, drifting from an RV: it’s Sister Mao Mao’s mobile coffee cart, a small, steady happiness on the road.
Opening note: This past summer, the Baili Dujuan RV camping base joined the ranks of the nation’s largest RV camping bases. All 728 parking spaces were full; over 1,300 sojourners from across the country stayed two months and more. RVs linked together, neighbors leaning on neighbors, a warm “wheel community” formed spontaneously among the hills. Beyond escaping the heat, some turned it into business — “travel entrepreneurs” who, with RVs and tents as shops, sold daily goods, hometown foods, and travel gear far from home, forming a vibrant “wheel market.” This series goes into the campsite to hear the summer entrepreneurship stories of sojourners everywhere, showing Baili Dujuan’s vivid practice of cultivating a “travel-entrepreneurship economy.”
At the Huaguan RV camping base, what’s never lacking is the clean air of the mountains. Yet one aroma is especially different, drifting out from an RV and carried far on the wind.
That is Sister Mao Mao’s mobile coffee cart.
The sign hangs outside the RV, the words “Have a cup of coffee” written boldly. Every morning at eight, Sister Mao Mao slides the door open, hangs up the order board, and the cabin lights up. It’s not big inside — coffee machine, ice maker, and assorted pour-over gear set neatly in place; white tassel curtains hang at the window, hills as the backdrop, and it’s a ready-made cafe.
Near noon, Henan traveler Chen Wenhua weaves through rows of RVs, follows the scent to the cart: “Sister Mao Mao, the usual raw-coconut latte.”
Grind, bloom, extract — her hands never stop.
Sister Mao Mao is from Ningbo, Zhejiang, and has long traveled the country by RV, stopping wherever she rests a while before moving on. This May she passed through Baili Dujuan with her child, meaning only to rest a bit and hit the road. But the mountain summer averages 19°C, the wind cool, the clouds slow — she looked, and her footsteps stopped.
The RV already carried a coffee machine. Staying longer, the cup she drinks daily she’d casually make for visiting RV friends to try. Hang up the order board and the little shop was open.
Call it business, but it’s more like adding a reason to the sojourn life. Those who come for a cup are mostly familiar RV friends, standing by the cart for a few words, topics wandering from where each came from to where the next stop lies.
When not busy, Sister Mao Mao leans by the door, watching the hills, the clouds, the comings and goings of license plates across the camp. Coffee ground, she pours a cup for herself first.
“To have such a steady little life even in a sojourn place — that is real, tangible little happiness,” she says.
What she came for was precisely this slowness. The coffee stand was never the goal, just something done along the way in sojourn life. Yet it is exactly this that made her three-plus months in the mountains more flavorful than elsewhere.
“Once I go back and level up my skills, next year the friends’ coffee will surely taste better,” she told camp staff as she drove the RV out.
Tianyan News reporter Wang Xing. Editor Wang Yao. Reviewer Gu Yeling. Final reviewer Xie Chaozheng.
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