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 .

europe

  • Bohemian Rhapsody

    The title is not referring to the great Queen song but to our time in Prague which was full of art and music and good food. I’ve never been to Prague or the Czech Republic. Our daughters have been here and the stories they told encouraged us to visit. When I traveled Europe in the Read more

  • Silver Lining

    In my Norway blog I mentioned that my European backpacking trip in 1980 ended prematurely and I never made it to Norway. So here’s my story. I had been traveling around Europe for 5 months when I found myself in Mozart’s birthplace, the picturesque Salzburg. Salzburg is surrounded by mountains as depicted in the movie, Read more