We really weren’t sure if taking a long road trip during the pandemic was a good idea. We reasoned we could be careful… wear our masks and social distance. We’d avoid crowds of people as much as possible. We’d be in the great outdoors for much of the time… biking, hiking and camping. We were pandemic-weary like most folks and needed a break from the tedium of being home. After all, we’re nomads at heart and we need to be on the move.
Read MoreEnding our 2020 Pandemic Road Trip has been difficult to do. We’ve been out and about on the road for nearly three months, in the national forests, biking rail-trails, hiking… enjoying the freedom, relaxation and time together that road trips promise and deliver. But, it was time to return to our home base. Rushing, however, is not in our vocabulary. We’re slow travelers and reckoned we had a couple of weeks to wend our back the ~1,000 miles to Las Vegas.
Read MoreWhen we learned about the Route of the Hiawatha, we were reminded of Longfellow’s famous poem, The Song of Hiawatha. We figured since we’d just been on the Trail of the Coeur D’Alenes, named after a Native American tribe, that the Route of the Hiawatha was named similarly. Au contraire, mes amis! It’s named after a train.
Read MoreHi there and welcome to Just A Little Further!
We are David and Marcie Lynn and we've lived aboard our Liberty 458 cutter-rigged sailboat since 2000.
What began as an urge to travel slowly and economically at our own pace ended up an adventure of a lifetime.
Well, here we are ... nearly 90,000 miles under the keel, 5 continents, 5 Great Southern Capes, 36 countries and almost two decades later, still taking one passage at a time and going just a little further.
