Gros Morne, loosely translated from the French means ‘lone mountain’, and it was visible from miles away as we approached from the north. Newfoundland’s second highest mountain at 2,644’ (896m), Gros Morne stands tall in the Long Range Mountains, part of the Appalachian chain, believe it or not, that stretch the length of Newfoundland’s west coast.
Read MoreEn route, we were treated to a Newfoundland traffic jam… scruffy-looking caribou (reindeer) shedding their winter fur, crowded onto the road. They seemed in no particular hurry. In fact, one of the males took a few minutes to scratch himself on the hood of one of the stopped cars.
Read MoreAccording to the UNESCO website, “L’Anse aux Meadows contains the excavated remains of a complete 11th-century Viking settlement, the earliest [authenticated] evidence of Europeans in North America.”
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.
