Hi!

I’m Monique. The voice behind this beloved site you’re on: My Perfect Itinerary. I am so glad to have you here on a page all about meeee! Disclaimer: I love to talk about myself so this might get lengthy…

I’m a Las Vegas native who doubles as an HR manager and a travel junkie (contradicting, I know). Unfortunately, you won’t find that “quit my corporate career / bought a one way ticket” kinda blog here! Oh no… You’ll find financial security-lovin’, wine drinking, three-day-weekend traveler!

I hope to bless you with my humorous tales, travel tips and of course… perfect itineraries!

When it all began… When I was cursed blessed with the travel bug… Paris, Christmas of 2009.

Let me paint a quick picture for you: I was the BIGGEST teenage brat in the history of teenage brats. My wonderful and overly-patient parents took my sister and I to Paris for Christmas. Sounds magical right?! Ya, that’s what my parents thought too. I threw an absolute fit the entire 2 weeks in Paris, mostly out of pride because I secretly loved it! But hey, what 13 year old girl admits to their parents they were wrong? Not this one! 🙂

Ever since, I have traveled all over the world! I spend 100% of my time off + spending money on what I love most in this world, travel! Shocker, right?! 😉

I spend an unhealthy amount of time day dreaming about my next travel destination and making perfect itineraries (hence the blog name) to places I have no immediate plans on going to. Because traveling is so expensive, I hate going to the same place twice! You can count on my itineraries being jam-packed so everything can be seen in one trip.

Things that I love:

• Overly priced and adorable coffee shops.
• Car Karaoke.
• Saying literally way too many times in a sentence.
• Online shopping and returning literally everything.
• Sending my parents pictures of everything I cook.
• Re-watching Gilmore Girls for the 8th time.
• Drinking high-end, super snobby wine.
• And cheap wine.
• Well, all wine actually.
• Crying over random people’s wedding videos.
• Writing color coated to-do lists with fancy pens.
• Reading every single Birthday card in the store before making a decision.
• All things photography.
• TRAVEL!

Some non-travel related / person stuff: I have a lovely boyfriend (update, now my Fiance!!) of 8+ years, two standard poodles named Rosie & Winnie (pictured below), many best friends who shares the same travel passion as me & an overly supportive family (more than I deserve)! All my travels have been with the list above –  so far have never traveled alone and truly love sharing experiences with the people who I love. Pictures never do the moment justice so getting to share that image you saw with someone would be hard to beat!

Thanks so much for stopping by 🙂