About
The story behind Arrow & Vane
Meet Misty
Travel captured my imagination long before it became part of my career.
In eighth grade, Mrs. Healy gave my home economics class a career project. I chose flight attendant. A few years later, my mom saved enough to send me to Spain with my high school Spanish class. We did not have the means to travel often, so that trip meant everything. I came home knowing I wanted to see more of the world.
But life did not take me straight to an airplane.
My New York City career began at a textile company founded by a woman who ran her own business her entire life. I carried fabric samples to meetings with some of the city's best known fashion designers and sat beside her as she presented her fabrics for each new season. Those meetings took me all over Manhattan and taught me the city, and working alongside her sparked my own entrepreneurial spirit.
She is also the one who got me the interview at a global law firm in Manhattan, where I spent years as a corporate immigration paralegal. Even after I moved on, she kept calling me in to help with her accounting and the business behind the scenes, all through my years at the law firm and later at a Brooklyn food manufacturer, where I helped take its product all the way to Shark Tank.
Then, on a visit to my childhood home, my mom came across that eighth grade career project. I read it, and the next day, I applied to the airlines. When I found Southwest, something clicked. Nearly a decade later, I still feel that way.
Life had one more turn in store. When COVID grounded so many flights, Southwest offered flight attendants a temporary leave, and I took it. Grocery and online orders were going through the roof, and the food business tripled, so I went back to working there full time while staying upstate with my parents. That is when I reconnected with Mike, someone I had known since high school.
Today he is my husband, and calling him my favorite travel partner does not begin to cover it. When I lost my dad, Mike carried me through one of the darkest periods of my life, quietly picking up the slack for both of us. He supports every dream I chase, including this one. He is, quite simply, the best person I know, and I am lucky to see the world beside him.
Aviation has given me far more than the chance to see the world. I have experienced travel from both sides of the aircraft door, watched perfect plans unravel and impossible situations come together, and learned how much it matters to have someone in your corner.
And I have never lost the sense of wonder that made that eighth grade girl choose flight attendant. That wonder eventually became Arrow & Vane.
The Arrow & Vane Story
Arrow & Vane began during a season when travel was the last thing on my mind.
For years, I planned trips simply because I loved it. Friends and family told me I should turn it into a business, but I never seriously considered it. I was busy. I had a career. There would always be time.
Then my dad got sick.
While caring for him, I had quiet stretches while he rested, and I began researching what it would take to become a travel advisor. I also kept thinking about the trips we had talked about taking together, and how easily we had assumed there would be another chance.
Ireland stayed with me most.
My entire life, my dad told me, "I have to get you to Ireland." My parents went while I was in college, when I could not leave school to join them. Years later, we finally planned the family trip I had always imagined. But when the time came, my dad's health was not steady enough for him to feel comfortable going.
The rest of us went.
He stayed home.
I will always wish we had taken that trip together.
Caring for my dad made something painfully clear: we are very good at believing there will be more time.
More time to take the trip. More time to visit the place someone has always wanted to show us. More time to gather everyone together. More time to make the memories we keep talking about.
Sometimes there is.
Sometimes there isn't.
Arrow & Vane grew from my love of travel and planning, but it found its purpose there. I want to help people stop leaving meaningful trips in the someday pile. Sometimes the hardest part is knowing where to begin and getting a plan into motion. I can help with that.
Why Arrow & Vane?
The name is intentional.
An arrow represents direction, precision, and purpose.
A vane carries two meanings. It is part of a feather, essential to flight, and in aviation and navigation, a vane responds to the wind and helps indicate direction.
Together, they reflect how I approach travel: with direction and intention, but always with the flexibility to respond when conditions change.
That balance matters to me.
And then there is the hummingbird.
Hummingbirds were part of life with my dad for as long as I can remember. My mom made the sugar water, the feeders went up, and we sat together watching their antics. My parents spent winters in Florida, and when they returned to New York each year, the hummingbirds seemed to arrive right along with them. Some became so familiar that we named them.
Sometimes the birds returned before my mom had even put the feeders up. They would hover inches from our faces, almost as if to say, You're back. Where's the food?
After my dad died, I returned to our family home and was walking through the yard with my stepson when a hummingbird appeared. It stayed with us, hovering unusually close and following us as we walked.
I could not help but think of my dad.
Today, the hummingbird at the heart of Arrow & Vane carries that memory. It is also a remarkable traveler in its own right: small but mighty, capable of extraordinary journeys, moving with purpose and precision.
For me, it represents where this business came from and what I hope it helps others remember:
Do not wait forever to take the trip.
Make the plans. Make the memories. Go while you can.
My Mission
Someday is not a date on the calendar.
There will always be reasons to put off the trip: finding the time, choosing where to go, figuring out logistics, getting everyone on the same page, or not knowing where to begin.
My mission with Arrow & Vane is to make taking the trip easier.
Whether it is somewhere you have dreamed about for years, a few days away with someone you love, or a chance to rest and see something new, your time and your reasons for going matter.
You do not need the perfect plan to get started. You just need to start.
I'll make the plans. You make the memories.