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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  • We left our hotel in McLeod Ganj and drove up the windy dirt roads to see spectacular vistas of the Himalaya Mountains. High up in the mountains is a world famous yoga and meditation Ashram or retreat centre. It was founded by the yogi Shri Mataji who was well known internationally. We returned to McLeod Read more

  • We drove for about 30 minutes from our hotel, higher up in the mountains to a tea plantation. The tea is planted in neat rows, like hedges. Some tea grows in shade and some in sun. This fellow showed us how they picked the leaves with a scythe for our guide Chime and us to Read more