Mark Zuckerberg plans a new honeymoon for his wife, Priscilla Chan, every single year

Priscilla Chan and Mark
Zuckerberg.
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Mark Zuckerberg is winning some serious brownie points in the
romance department after revealing in a Facebook
post that he takes his wife, Priscilla Chan, on a brand new
honeymoon each and every year.

“Today is Priscilla and my five year wedding anniversary, and I
want to share a fun story about how it came together. Yesterday
was the five year anniversary of Facebook’s IPO. Now you may ask,
who would plan their wedding for the day after their IPO? Good
question,” Zuckerberg wrote.

He explained that the IPO’s date came so close to his
wedding date out of sheer coincidence.The Zuckerbergs planned a
surprise ceremony, so the social media company’s chief financial
officer had no idea his choice of date would fall just 24 hours
before the biggest day of Zuckerberg’s life. Following the
couple’s low-key ceremony in their own backyard, they did in fact
head off for a quick travel escape, however the trip had to be
cut short so Facebook’s founder could attend to his
duties.

So, to make it up to his new wife, Zuckerberg promised Chan
that each year he’d plan an uber-special
honeymoon in a new location.

Mark Zuckerberg and
Priscilla Chan
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“That brings us to today,” Zuckerberg continued. “Some years
we’ve gone to Japan or France. This year we’re traveling around
the US and we’ll be spending our honeymoon in rural Maine. One
lesson I’ve learned from marriage is that exploring together just
gets better over time.”

According to local news
outlets in New England, the Zuckerbergs have been spotted at
The Fiddlehead Restaurant on Hammond Street in downtown Bangor
and in Millinocket, hiking around Mount Katahdin.

“Millinocket was literally built around a paper mill. The
mill company supported the schools, built homes for workers, and
at the end of the day just took care of everyone. People
graduating from high school knew they had a job at the mill if
they wanted it,”
Zuckerberg
wrote
in a separate post about the community. “Despite
all the challenges, I was struck by their commitment to rebuild
their community. When I asked people if they would leave to
pursue a better career opportunity elsewhere, not a single person
said they would. They love their community and they’re optimistic
they can build new industries not cutting down the forests, but
leaving them standing and creating tourism from the natural
beauty, as well as other industries of the future.”

The Zuckerbergs’ travels to Maine came as part of their personal
50-state challenge.

“After a tumultuous last year, my hope for this challenge is to
get out and talk to more people about how they’re living, working
and thinking about the future,” he explained, adding in a more
recent
post, “I hope a lot of you have challenged yourselves to get
out and learn from other perspectives this year too. I’d love to
hear your stories and reflections as well.”