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 MoreBack at camp, we were relaxing a bit before dinner when an armadillo trotted past us right through the campsite. I was thrilled. Other than flat armadillos along the roadside, I’d never seen an armadillo before in the wild and certainly not an armadillo nonchalantly ambling and snuffling a few feet from my chair.
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 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.
