Stepping off the edge

Owlmother's adventures

Picking up where I left off… kinda

I started a blog called Stepping off the Edge when I left my comfortable middle class and middle age life in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and headed to Adelaide, Australia to return to school in 2012.

For 8 years I blogged about events in my life…family weddings, birth of grandkids, travel. I no longer own the email address associated with that blog so couldn’t continue, hence starting over in this space.

So I picked up where I left off with our trip in fall 2024 to Europe and will continue with India and the Maldives .

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  • Exploring our own backyard

    We’ve lived in Victoria for 12 years yet have not explored the north Island and the Sunshine Coast. So we’re heading off this week, driving north to Campbell River, taking a ferry across the Strait of Georgia to Powell River, driving and taking a couple of ferries (yes there’s lots of water) down to Sechelt Read more

  • Who knew?

    We left home at 9 am heading north up the Malahat Highway. We stopped at our favourite bakeries for cinnamon buns. True Grain Bakery in Cowichan Bay for Keith and The Garage in Duncan for me, where I like their sweet potato and ancient grains bun. We arrived in Lake Cowichan late morning. We’d never Read more