6 Reasons to Stop Waiting and Travel NOW

Let’s admit it, sometimes the hardest step of planning a trip is making the decision to actually go. Oftentimes, we dream up vacations, make bucket lists of all the places we’d like to visit and tell ourselves this will be the year we will finally make travel a priority… then it doesn’t happen.  You start…

The Truth About Going Corporate to Digital Nomad

I’m Marie, founder of Avec Marie – Events, an event agency that helps bridesmaids plan the perfect bachelorette party for their bride-to-be. Additionally, I freelance as a graphic designer and virtual assistant. Sounds like I have life figured out, right? But my life looked a whole lot different a year ago! Here’s my story of…

How the Pandemic Has Changed Travel Preferences

2020 was not only the year when we experienced a global pandemic. It was also the year that travel has changed, and from the look of things, it doesn’t seem like we’ll be going back to the old way of doing things. COVID-19 significantly devastated the travel sector, and businesses suffered significant drops in revenue…

Top 5 Post-COVID Wedding Destinations

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic that took the world by storm in an unprecedented instance, so many changes took place. From travel bans to lockdowns and quarantine, it is safe to say that plans also took major turning points in not just months, but the past year. Many vacations were not pushed through, celebrations did…

Five Ways to Make Your Disney Vacation Magical

I’ve visited Walt Disney World every month of the year, and with children as young as six months old. I want to share with you my tips and tricks to having your best day ever in the most magical place on Earth! Here, I narrowed it down to my top five ways to make your…

Shenandoah Shenanigans: Exploring The Shenandoah Valley

With summer upon us and COVID positivity rates well below CMS thresholds, I put together a mystery vacation for our extended family (whose images appear with their permission herein) as a 70th birthday present for my wife. In this post, I’ll cover where we stayed, what we did, and where we ate in the hopes…