We teetered back and forth on more renovations versus travel, staying here or moving to a different house. It’s not that we’re tiring of travel… never! But in the end after all the improvements we’d just made, we decided we like this house, but it desperately needed updating. Thus 2025 became ‘The Year of the House’. Since January, we’ve been doing house projects… big house projects.
Read MoreThe Paiutes called it Nuvagantu, “where snow sits”. In the winter, it’s the place to go skiing in Las Vegas. In summer, we call it a welcome respite from the Mojave Desert’s relentless heat… Mount Charleston. At 11,916 feet (3,632m), it is the highest mountain in southern Nevada’s Spring Mountains and the fourth highest mountain in the state. Snow-covered for six months of the year or more, it looms over the Las Vegas Valley as a prominent feature of the western horizon, visible from the Strip and, on clear days, our front yard.
Read MoreSome of our webpages were embarrassingly out of date. We’ve just completed some major updates - come check it out!
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.
