Posts from — October 2009

The final episode of “The Founders”, a weekly webcast chronicling our amazing summer in Techstars, aired yesterday. And without giving anything away, let’s just say that we attempted a prank that had the potential to cause a lot of trouble. Did we get away with it? Watch and find out:

The Founders | Reunion | Episode 14 from Megan Leigh Sweeney on Vimeo.

We’re sad that the summer is over, and we’re so thankful to have had the opportunity to work closely with so many amazingly talented mentors and entrepreneurs. Lucky for us, we’ll have all 14 entertaining episodes of “The Founders” to help remember the most intense, crazy, fun, exhilarating, stressful, and inspiring time of our lives.

(Thank you so much to Megan Sweeney of Alpine Light Pictures who did an amazing job filming and editing the entire series. It’s just not the same without you following us around anymore…)

If you’re like us at Everlater, your travel ideas and suggestions come primarily from the people you know. For years my family vacationed in Palm Springs, California (because we had a free place to stay) despite feeling as though we had exhausted most of the interesting things to do. We’d:

• Hung out by the pool
• Hiked the canyons
• Perused high societies retail options along El Paseo
• Hit up the enormous weekend street fair
• Kept cool at Oasis Water Park

My last two visits though have been with a new group of people - adventurous friends who had entirely new perspectives and ideas about what to see. I:

• Took the Palm Springs Arial Tramway to the top of the 11,000 foot Mt San Jacinto for some hiking and bouldering
• Finally visited Joshua Tree National Park. (Don’t be like my family and talk yourself out of visiting because it’s “just a desert”)
• Rode ATV’s on sand dunes
• Visited the Salton Sea. If you find beauty in decay - it’s a must.
• Saw the Imperial Sand Dunes (where scenes from Star Wars were filmed)
• Became strangely enamored with Salvation Mountain - a 50 foot desert monument, created by hand of paint, mud and straw by a truly dedicated man

My friend (and amazing photographer) Kip Gerenda documented our Salton Sea journey on Everlater.

In the end, this is just a long way of saying: don’t settle for thinking you know everything there is to do in a particular place. Sometimes all you need is to hook up with other travelers like you to find the hidden gems.

We can’t wait to start connecting people in the Everlater community to that type of information.