The final chapter of the Journey from There to Here. Come with us for our passage from Trinidad to Culebra, on to St. Augustine, up the ICW to Charleston and north to Chesapeake, VA. You won't get seasick ... promise!
Read MoreAs I continue the ongoing saga of Nine of Cups’ From There to Here, I feel like Charles Dickens serializing Great Expectations in the local newspaper each week. Uruguay proved to be a wonderful place for us. We enjoyed the people, the town and the laid-back ambiance of the whole country. Their motto seems to be “Tranquilo” … and tranquil it was.
Read MoreLike any new lifestyle or life change, it takes awhile to get into the swing of things. Beyond the sailing, anchoring and boat maintenance/repair, there was just acclimating to a life afloat in a small, compact, very defined area. We weren’t used to living so close to nature, being dependent on tides, currents and seasons. We weren’t used to “foraging” for food, i.e. figuring out where the closest grocery store was and hoofing it with our backpacks to get there and back. I certainly wasn’t used to lugging dirty laundry to the laundromat or doing laundry by hand aboard. After awhile, however, it became second nature and we settled in.
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.
