After traveling non-stop from 1987 until the end of 1993, Todd Carmichael reconnected with Iberti, and returned to the U.S. in 1994, settling down in Philadelphia, PA in mid-January of that year.
In late 2009, Todd Carmichael began to formulate his idea to create a Southern blend that would later become known as La Colombe's Louisiane, which he felt needed to be made with coffee from Haiti.