When we ventured outside Blanche the next morning, the campsite was abloom in wildflowers. Texas bluebonnets, bright purple spiderwort, dainty Texas baby-blue-eyes, Drummond’s onion and Mexican buckeye all strutted their stuff in a rainbow pageant. And, yes, I had to use my NWF Wildflowers of North America book to identify them all. It’s hard to realize that we’re only minutes from downtown Austin.
Read MoreWhen we saw the sign for the Judge Roy Bean Museum, we just had to stop. Turns out, the Texas DOT restored and maintains this historic site which also serves as a Texas Travel Info & Visitor Center.
Read MoreWe decided on a hotel night in Fort Stockton… hot showers (no time limitations like the park showers), unlimited Wi-Fi, a king sized bed, laundry facilities and A/C. I had picked up a Fort Stockton brochure previously and done a little on-line research to set an itinerary for exploration of the town. We headed out to see what we could see.
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.
