Once we finally escaped Memphis’s no-exit conundrum and crossed the Mississippi into Arkansas, we headed to Hot Springs National Park conveniently situated along our route. Hot Springs National Park is an urban park located smack dab on Central Avenue in the middle of the city of Hot Springs, so-named because… well, there are lots of hot springs there.
Read MoreWe prefer backroads to interstates, small towns to cities, and quirky museums and roadside oddities. That’s how we found ourselves in Leland, Mississippi, ‘birthplace of the frog’, only a couple of hundred miles out of our way.
Read MoreThere are 10,000+ thermal features in the park including four types of hydrothermal features: hot springs, geysers, mud pots, and fumaroles (steam vents) and we had the opportunity to see them all.
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.
