TO SEE · 04/17/2013
Everybody in the water
Employee stories from our first annual trip to Guatemala—where, each year, team members will go on their third Warby Parker anniversary to see our non-profit partners in action and for a well-deserved break:
“Cliff jumping, ah. Never thought I’d do it. We all piled into a passenger boat with the intention of spending the day at a secluded beach. We were envisioning palm trees, white sand, that sort of thing. We got there, and it was just a five-foot-wide stretch of earth; I don’t even know what to call the terrain. So we switched gears, and headed to a tiny island, where rumor was we could jump into the ocean from 30 feet up. We climbed up a dirt path, led by two little kids, through alleys, past a yoga retreat, up a rocky trail. And there it was: a tiny platform built into the side of the mountain, 30-feet up. It felt a lot higher than that. We each jumped twice. I’ll never forget that view, or all the obstacles on the way to seeing it.”
— Royce, Marketing Supervisor
Photos: Tim Riley (top), Joshua Cogan (all others)