The Beginning

Welcome to the Heckermacher Honeymoon blog - where the Heckermachers recount their magical, romantical journey through Thailand for those who generously helped fund it as a wedding gift (and anyone else who expresses even the tiniest modicum of interest).

Happy Heckermachers on their wedding day. 

    Thanks so much to those who contributed to the Heckermacher Honeyfund! And if you didn't, it's cool, you can get us next time. (We kid. There won't be a next time. Heckermachers mate for life.) For those of you still waiting on thank-you notes, they are so totally coming. We swear. We started on them, but then life got in the way.

In November, exactly two days after the Heckermachers had purchased plane tickets, Anna lost her job in a round of unexpected and sweeping layoffs (thanks, Comcast/NBC). Instead of booking hotels and scheduling tiger-snuggling sessions, she spent the following weeks hunting down connections and scheduling interviews.

By mid-December, she'd landed a new job with a sexier-sounding title (albeit a longer commute) as Associate Copy Director for Hearst Magazines' Digital Media Group. Between her new job and the myriad freelance projects she'd taken on in a post-layoff panic, she was too busy to do any vacation planning, so Tim the Enchanter gallantly stepped in and took care of the whole thing.

Sunset from the Hearst Tower. 

The result? By the time they left for their honeymoon, Anna hadn't had a proper day off in over two months - and she had only the vaguest sense of what the next two weeks had in store.