Oh hey! It’s been a while. We are still Jackie and Mandy, but almost everything around us has changed. We now have a beautiful 5-month-old baby girl named Avery. We’ve gotten married, bought a new house, and lived through a pandemic. During all of that change and craziness, traveling became secondary on our priorities as you can imagine.
Staycation at-home
We did take a few trips since we’ve been here to San Juan, Nashville, Buffalo, Cancun, Savannah, Asheville, Charleston, a NYE cruise, and exploring more places around our home city of St. Petersburg, FL. Okay, I guess we have traveled a bit! Some were to visit friends and family, two cities were for our honeymoon, and we carved out as much time as possible to enjoy a few extra vacation days. More to come on those trips soon!
That being said, we are back! With a fresh perspective of new moms and tons of cool travel planned. This upcoming year we are flying three times with our young baby, which should be quite the fun adventure. Two of those trips are to visit family (because we all need an easy trip to start, right?) to both Virginia and Cape May, NJ. We are excited to show Avery some of the places we love and spend time with loved ones.
The big, exciting trip is to…
ALASKA!
That’s right, we have a sweet 8 day cruise planned to Alaska with our baby girl this fall. The trip starts in Seattle, which we are ridiculously excited about. Mandy is a huge Dave Matthews and coffee fan so, obviously Seattle is a great new spot for us. The cruise will also take us to Sitka, Skagway, Juneau, and Victoria, BC. To say we are PUMPED would be putting it lightly. While we have plans, we don’t want to share them just yet. There will be lots of good info coming on that trip.
That’s all for now, more soon!
Cheers to Chasing Our Compass – Mandy, Jackie, Avery and our puppy Levi
