Spurned by the ladybugs, we opted to head to Springs Preserve on Sunday. In the middle of the Mojave Desert, the Springs Preserve area was an oasis for early travelers. Las Vegas translated from Spanish is ‘the meadows’ and Springs Preserve is now 180 acres of trails, museums and botanical gardens about three miles from the Las Vegas Strip owned and operated by the Las Vegas Valley Water District. It’s an awesome place.
Read MoreOnce we finally escaped Memphis’s no-exit conundrum and crossed the Mississippi into Arkansas, we headed to Hot Springs National Park conveniently situated along our route. Hot Springs National Park is an urban park located smack dab on Central Avenue in the middle of the city of Hot Springs, so-named because… well, there are lots of hot springs there.
Read MoreWe prefer backroads to interstates, small towns to cities, and quirky museums and roadside oddities. That’s how we found ourselves in Leland, Mississippi, ‘birthplace of the frog’, only a couple of hundred miles out of our way.
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.
