Bon Voyage, San Francisco!
The Bay Area is sunny and calm on this Sunday morning, but it’s hectic in the homes of various Vayable team members as we make the final preparations for our departure. Imagine bags exploding with clothes and a bed of wires, chargers, and Macbooks. At least our bags are now packed and in little neat piles. The majority of our team leaves for Paris now in just a couple of hours. We’ll be gone until October.
What are we doing?
The bigger task at hand is to change the way that people experience travel. We’re heading to Paris for our PopUp headquarters to connect with users, learn from them and improve our product. We’ll finally meet the travelers who use Vayable to connect to locals in destinations as well as the Insiders who use our platform to offer travel advice and trip design services.
We couldn’t be happier. Of course there’s the obvious benefit of a series of European urban escapades: drippy cheese, walks on the Seine, wine and tapas. But more importantly, we’re finally in the same timezone as our community! Gone are the nights (at least for a couple of weeks) of setting our alarms to 2 am to make calls to France, hoping the Skype camera wouldn’t somehow turn on and reveal our crazy bed-head and sleep shirts.
See you on the other side of the pond!
Cheers,
The Vayable Team
Maeby helps Michelle navigate the streets of Paris before saying goodbye for almost a month.
Jamie’s determined to keep up her boxing training while on the road.
Nathalie wins the toiletry-packing challenge.
Nathalie packing up last-minute supplies while our Lyft waits outside.
Arriving at the SFO International terminal!
Nat and Michelle trying to finish off our Kombuchas before going through security.
Last minute recharge break!
Thank you, British Airways, for hooking up our flights! Off we go!
