UGBT Austin: Why Walk when You Don't Have To?

Continuing in our we-wish-it-was-more-consistent tradition of deconstructing UGBT parties in bizarre locations specific to that city, we bring you the Austin pedicab ride from last Friday night. Its no cornfield or parasail 500 feet over Seattle (to be posted soon, really.) But it was as good as we could get given the UT football game got canceled for the weekend.

It was canceled of course in anticipation of hurricane Ike and the Austin Statesmen noted I was the "second hurricane" coming to town. (Safe to say from the sunny skies, we had a bigger impact than Ike, right?)
Exhausted from the last night of TechCrunch50, Olivia and I barely made our flights, barely made the hotel for some snacks and a very quick cat nap before the event at the Marq downtown. Huge, huge thanks to Bryan Menell for organizing and James Hyde of BusinessWeek and the other sponsors. It was a great turnout and in the tradition of the User Generated Book Tour, I met a lot of fascinating tech folks who I hope to stay in touch with for years to come.

Afterwards, Olivia and I hung out on a lovely rooftop bar with some of her oldest friends from back East. One of them, the charming Eli, may do a SarahLacy.com internship next summer. Quickly gleaning the way to the top of this organization, he stealthily arranged for us to travel back to the Hilton in style while he went to Wendy's to pick up late night junk food. Impressive.

In this video, Olivia and I are a little tired from the previous 72 hours of TechCrunch50 insanity + travel + several-hundred-person Austin party so forgive the general loopy-ness. (Believe me, you don't want to see the outtakes....)

Why Don't We Just Take the Rickshaw? from sarah lacy on Vimeo.