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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  • Isle of Skye and Loch Ness

    We started our trek around the Isle of Skye in Portree, a quaint little town on the coast. Keith had his first Scottish Breakfast with Haggis, baked beans, hash browns, mushrooms, tomato, sausage, bacon and eggs. Our first stop was The Old Man of Storr, a distinctive rock formation we could see miles (the Scottish Read more

  • History everywhere

    On our drive across Scotland we randomly picked Loch Awe to stop and stretch our legs. The loch and surrounding hills were, well awesome! We drove parallel to the loch looking for somewhere to stop and saw an old building and parking lot for a charming little church called Saint Conan’s Kirk. The chapel was Read more