There are lengthy gaps in the GART in this area which rely heavily on roads and highways. We opted to avoid these and parked at lovely Fort Laurens State Park to ride. A bit of trivia… Fort Laurens is the only American Revolutionary War fort in Ohio.
Read MoreWe’re continuing to cycle on the GART (Great American Rail-Trail). There’s an unfinished gap between the end of the Panhandle Trail in West Virginia and the beginning of the next trail in Ohio. We drove to a tiny parking area in Bowerston, Ohio for the next leg of the GART and set off on our first Ohio ride, the 11.2 mile Conotton Creek Trail.
Read MoreThe connector trail between the GAP and the Montour is not yet completed. We picked up the Montour Trail at its southeastern terminus in Clairton Park, Clairton, Pennsylvania, just southeast of Pittsburgh. Honored as the Pennsylvania Trail of the Year in 2017, the Montour is the ‘nations’s longest suburban rail-trail’ and the main line stretches about 47 miles. In 2019 and 2020, readers of Pittsburgh Magazine named the Montour Trail Best in the Burgh in the hiking/biking category. It’s an awesome trail, extremely well maintained by volunteer members of the Montour Trail Council. We cycled about 31 miles of it until it intersected with the Panhandle Trail.
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.
