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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  • Three Island tour

    When planning to travel it’s hard to determine how long you need to spend in each location. I depended on Rick Steves’ guides when Keith and I traveled to Spain, Portugal and Morocco in 2017. He is an expert on traveling in Europe. Not wanting to lug a book around for our month of travel, Read more

  • MULL and Staffa

    The other two islands we visited on the three island tour were Mull and Staffa. We took a ferry from Oban to Mull, a quaint place inhabited by about 3000 people. The top soil is only about a foot deep covering volcanic rock so there is little agriculture but lots of grazing sheep and cows Read more