Rain, rain, rain! We’ve definitely been beating the odds for rain in England this time of year, but it was bound to catch up with us. We were most thankful for our rain gear. The further we walked from Oxford, the less traffic noise we heard. Sirens and car horns faded away. We walked through wet, muddy meadows and fields, greeted by black-faced, long-tailed sheep and Angus cows.
Read MoreWhat? A day off … no walking? Well, there might be no walking on the Thames Path today, but there’s plenty of walking to be done in Oxford. We’re taking a leisure day (a vacation from our vacation?) and spending it in the ‘City of Dreaming Spires’.
Read MoreI've never had a high regard for British food. Some of my bias, I have to admit, comes from the generally bad rep it gets, and some is based on airport food I've had as I passed through London Heathrow on the way to business meetings elsewhere. I have to say, however, that either the food here has dramatically improved since our last visit, or my memory is even worse than I thought.
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.
