One of our favorite places to walk locally is the Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail in Lake Mead National Recreation Area. It’s a fairly easy 4-mile out and back, hard-packed gravel path on the abandoned railroad line that was built to transport materials and supplies for the construction of the Hoover Dam back in the early 1930s.
Read MoreWe recently visited Lake Mead’s St. Thomas ghost town and saw a reference to the Old Arrowhead Trail and it piqued our interest. Under a gray, mackerel sky, we set out to find the old trail. It was unseasonably cool as we headed north to Valley of Fire State Park, one of our favorite Nevada state parks, and found the signed entrance to the trail.
Read MoreOur area is experiencing a massive drought, its driest period in 1,200 years. Lake Mead is shrinking at an alarming rate. Las Vegas depends on Lake Mead not only for drinking water, but also for its electricity production. So what’s to be done?
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.
