Meet the 52 Perfect Days Team

Our goal is to share travel articles and ideas for locals who want to find new and interesting things to do in their city and provide insider information for visitors who want to experience a city and feel like a local. Learn more about us below!

Founder

Alexa / CEO / Founder / Twitter: @alexameisler

Alexa Meisler is the editorial director of 52 Perfect Days. Born in Paris, France she has since lived in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland. She currently resides in San Diego, with her husband and son where they enjoy exploring the world as often as they can. Travel has always been a part of her life; traveling to such places as Morocco, Tangiers and Spain as a young child as well as taking many road trips to Mexico with her grandparents as a young girl. Since then, she has traveled abroad to locations such as Russia, Taiwan and throughout Europe.

Photography Editor

Todd Meisler / Photography Editor / Twitter: @toddmeisler

Todd Meisler is a true renaissance man. A web ninja with a passion for travel, and a photographic eye.

I love travel photography and have been shooting for years, anywhere from Russia to Mexico, I have a great time trying to capture honest and exciting images. I run a website development, SEO and Social Media Marketing agency. My background is in art, photography, design, the business management, internet marketing, technology, online strategies, design, web development, consulting, speaking, publishing, art direction and music. I am a singer and drummer for 30 years and have played with many well-known musicians over the years while living in the Los Angeles area. I have experience in audio production and music as well as multimedia presentation and production.

City Guide

Marissa Willman / Palm Springs / Twitter: @marissawillman

Marissa Willman is our Palm Springs guide. She writes most of the articles focusing on Palm Springs, Palm Desert, La Quinta, Rancho Mirage, Indian Wells, Indio, Desert Hot Springs, Thousand Palms, Bermuda Dunes and the whole Coachella Valley! Marissa keeps us up to date on all things in the desert. Check out her blog http://www.marissawillman.com/

Staff Writers

Becky Garrison / Travel Gear / Twitter: @becky_garrison

Becky is our travel gear expert. In addition to finding and testing the best travel products around, she is also traveling much of the time and sharing some great travel destinations for our site.

Here are Becky’s criteria for selecting travel items:

1. pass TSA screening procedures
2. pack well
3. lightweight, so it doesn't add excessive weight to the bag
4. enable women to emerge from a day of travel looking refreshed and wrinkle free.

When possible, I seek out sustainable products so that I can travel while leaving behind as little trace as possible. So while I am sampling these products, I only feature those items that actually work for travelers.

Larry Houser / Staff Writer

Larry Houser is our expert on gambling and shares how to spend a perfect day in many locations throughout the U.S and beyond. He is also a writer for covers.com In addition to focusing on gambling, he writes about pro football, pro basketball and other sports.

Sales & Marketing

Penny Williams / Sales VP

Penny Williams is a not just our sales and marketing VP, but she also is a travel writer and photographer. She is an explorer at heart and has written many articles for 52PerfectDays as well as...

Network Design & Development

ZD Design / CTO / Twitter: @zddesign

ZD Design keeps 52Perfectdays up and running and looking pretty. They have developed our website and keep it humming along thanks to the great staff!