Juneteenth, short for June Nineteenth, commemorates June 19, 1865, the day federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing enslaved African Americans from bondage. Many African Americans were unaware that they had been freed. It took two years for them to get the news. In 2021, Juneteenth became America’s newest federal holiday.
Read MoreRoughly a million people will crowd into Times Square for the drop of the iconic Times Square Ball tonight. The tradition was started in 1907 by the New York Times’ owner, Adolph Ochs, when the city banned fireworks. The ball has dropped every year at midnight (00:00) on January 1st since then with the exception of 1942-1943, the years of WWII when ‘lights out’ was enforced.
Read MoreI’m a sucker for candy canes (pun intended).
Ever wonder where the tradition began, why they’re striped, and why they’re peppermint? Me, too! So here’s the story…
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.
