The hours lingered on. More cars, RVs, semis, and vans joined the queue. We’d go out and check the river, talk with fellow travels (Do you think the water’s going down?) and come back to Blanche to read or write for a while longer. We had lunch, then dinner, then popcorn. By around 10PM, we were pretty convinced that we weren’t going anywhere this night.
Read MoreThe wind was howling and it was icy cold, so my bikini was out of the question. I did manage to take off one shoe and hobbled down to the water for a toe dip. David, on the other hand, was all ready to dive in, but an ice berg got in the way. Instead, he plodded in with two bare feet and apparently enjoyed the foot freezing because he stayed in for well over a minute.
Read MoreOur son, Brennan, our personal geographer and tourist info guide, made us aware of a new (2017) 98-mile gravel highway, the ITH, that connects Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk (aka Tuk) in the Northwest Territories.. It is the only public road in North America that allows folks to drive all the way to the Arctic Ocean and dip their toes. To get there, one first has to travel the Dempster Highway, 400+ miles one way on a gravel road with two river ferry crossings. All this to drive to the top of the continent? There was no doubt in our minds that we had to do it.
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.
