Lake Mead Recreation Area is close to home and proved to be a wonderful place for hiking and camping. We walked the Historic Railroad Trail through its five tunnels all the way to the Hoover Dam boneyard. Come join us for an enjoyable walk.
Read MoreIf you read last week's Blue View, you may remember that we were planning to spend a night or two sleeping on the ground to see whether our old geriatric bones could still manage it. Would we have to endure a very long night of throbbing hips, backs and shoulders? Would we ever again be able to get into an upright position? Would the campground host, investigating the bad smell emanating from our tent, find our bloated, rattlesnake-bitten remains? Since then, we did spend a couple of nights camped at nearby Lake Mead, and I'm happy to report that …
Read MoreWe were looking for another hiking trail close to home. We’d visited the Clark County Wetlands Park before and walked the many short, but interesting trails through the nature preserve on countless occasions. What we didn’t realize is that the nature preserve itself is only a small portion of the Wetlands Parks and the Wetlands Loop Trail offered miles of walking opportunity.
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.
