Blue View – Stats and Facts for the Via Francigena
/Now that we’ve finished the Via Francigena and are back home, we’ve put together a few statistics and facts about the walk. Some are interesting and some are fun…
Read MoreNow that we’ve finished the Via Francigena and are back home, we’ve put together a few statistics and facts about the walk. Some are interesting and some are fun…
Read MoreFiguring out our route and exactly how we were going to get from Rome to Canterbury was a daunting task. I used three hardbound route guides, a couple of eBook route guides, and six different apps to figure it all out. The kitchen table was covered with books, notes, my notebook computer, an iPad and an iPhone, plus, depending on the time of day, either a cup of coffee or a glass of wine…
Read MoreIn our walk through France, we've passed through perhaps a few hundred villages and towns, and virtually all have monuments honoring the fallen in WWI, most with the inscription "For our children who have died for their country". A large part of the 'war to end all wars' was fought on French soil, and when it was finally over, much of the country lay in ruins and more than a million French soldiers had perished. At first we saw town cemeteries that had a few dozen white crosses for the graves of the war dead, then the local cemeteries included the graves of fifty or a hundred or more, and now in the north where some of the heaviest fighting took place, we see a great many military graveyards with the crosses for hundreds and even thousands of fallen soldiers…
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.