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 .

travel

  • Day 16 – Amer Fort

    Today we drove to the original capital of Rajasthan, the Amer Fort, which is in the hills a few kilometres outside of Jaipur. The fortress has a wall, the third longest wall in the world, after The Great Wall of China and another wall in the same state. Like many cities the fort was designed Read more

  • Today we drove from Jaipur towards Agra on a decent two lane highway. Our small bus was constantly impeded by motorcyclists, in some cases, carrying whole families, who weave in and out of the lanes from the shoulder where they usually drive. We stayed in Lotwara Fort, a former palace that has been converted into Read more