Errant Dames

06/30/2022

Lunch!

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If you are in upstate New York, in the vicinity of Red Hook GO to Holy Cow Ice Cream!! Their soft serve is what all soft serve wishes it could be - freakin perfect. There is lots to choose from so you do you, but I prefer a vanilla chocolate swirl with rainbow 🌈 sprinkles.
Just go now.
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05/31/2022

I’m on my first solo road trip in ages. Driving north through New Mexico everything is smokey. This beautiful state is on fire. Tonight is my first night stealth camping. Tomorrow I head further north to 80, hang a right and drive to Maine….

05/22/2022

03/20/2022

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03/20/2022

Turns out axe throwing is an excellent way to spend your afternoon! does an excellent job at making you feel safe and confident to throw real live axes at 🎯. You can book online even and reserve your own bullseye. We were instantly hooked and already have plans to start our own league - Tucson Womens Axe Throwing. 🤣
We will definitely have t-shirts. 🪓💕. If you ever find yourself near a venue I HIGHLY recommend giving it a try! And don’t forget to tip your axe throwing teacher!
We’re going back at least once before we leave!

03/14/2022

UPDATE : The Errant Dames have been MIA for a while. We sold a house, moved into storage, and have a month before our new-to-us house will be ready for us. In the meantime we are enjoying a cabin in Big Bear Lake for the next couple of weeks - working remotely, enjoying the slower pace and beautiful Mountain View’s. The dogs are also enjoying all the squirrels and coyotes that walk by our window everyday. Big Bear 🐻🏔is lovely and I’m grateful for the break after we’ve had a few months of intense family stuff going on.

11/24/2021

Dear Colorado, you always put on a good show. We’ll be back soon! Love, The Errant Dames
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10/23/2021

Sipping espresso, Julie seeing the Atlantic for the first time AND wild flamingos 🦩 and my favorite color combination on buildings and windy narrow streets for days…. Never want to leave.
In the morning we wake up in Sintra and explore castles.
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10/20/2021

It is a dream to be here! Our first day has been eventful. Our rental car didn’t work due to me scheduling it for the wrong date. The kind rental car guy drove us to a bus station and then helped us find the right bus.
We made it to Setúbal but had no idea how to get from the bus top to our Airbnb but luckily we had the worlds nicest taxi driver who taught us about how old Setúbal is and then gave us his card and told us to call him if we have any problems or just need helping translating- so we’re all best friends now. 🚕
Then we ate in a small square down the street from our place- fresh salads! And we tried one of the fresh sardines with some kind of tomato and garlic sauce - wow good! 🐟
Then it was nap time and I got a migraine so not much else happened. I took my meds and Julie went to the grocery store and bought stuff to make dinner at home… like a local!
Everyone is genuinely kind, even the most basic food is awesome and we have already made friends with the old lady who lives across the street and hangs her laundry outside (like everyone else)
Tomorrow we plan to explore Setúbal by foot and catch a train to Lisbon for our food tour.
We feel at home here already! ❤️🇵🇹

10/19/2021

We are packed!
We each have 1 carry on (32L ) and 1 personal item ( tote) for 2 weeks in Portugal 🇵🇹
I have one million things to do on the flights to keep me calm and creative, snacks (oatmeal cookies and granola) electrolytes to stay hydrated and a ton of PPE.
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We also have our vaccine cards and negative test results.
I think we are ready!!

10/16/2021

The weather in Phoenix is finally livable again. It’s perfect really, and one of the reasons we all stay here through the living-on-the-sun summers.
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We’ve been walking everyday and hiking on weekends in preparation for taking on the hills of Lisbon next week.
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This hike was at
If my wife is reading this DONT scroll to the last photo- it is a picture of the Western 🐍Diamondback we saw on the trail. The first I’ve seen since moving to AZ.
Thank you to the kind hikers that alerted us to its presence before we stumbled upon it.

09/18/2021

I haven’t posted much lately. We are in the process of downsizing our belongings which is sometimes overwhelming but ultimately freeing.
I came across a small box of some of my grandmothers things. Things she salvaged from her home in Austria after it burned down.
She lost so much overnight that she couldn’t part with the few things she found in the rubble.

The fire started in my bedroom. I wasn’t there at the time, and I was too young to grasp what had happened but it became a part of the family story over time- how and where the fire started.

A lifetime later my own house burned down. An electrical fire, like my grandmothers. It happened on the anniversary of her death.
It’s hard not to think it is all, somehow, connected, part of the family story - cleansing by fire.
This pocket watch and picture frame were in the box.
It’s time for me to let them go.