John Chapman was an American pioneer, orchardist, and American folk hero best known by his nickname, Johnny Appleseed. Born at the start of the Revolutionary War, I was surprised to learn he hailed from Leominster, Massachusetts… my home state.
Read MoreNational Aardvark Week kind of sneaks up on you. Probably because there aren’t any aardvarks in North America. In fact, they’re only found in sub-Saharan Africa, and even there, people don’t see them often because they’re shy, solitary, and nocturnal. Your best chance of ever seeing one is probably in a zoo.
Read MoreOne of our favorite places to walk locally is the Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail in Lake Mead National Recreation Area. It’s a fairly easy 4-mile out and back, hard-packed gravel path on the abandoned railroad line that was built to transport materials and supplies for the construction of the Hoover Dam back in the early 1930s.
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.
