"Baby needs new shoes" - a phrase said aloud when one is hoping for good luck in a game of chance, especially before a dice roll... The Free Dictionary. Well I can't speak for baby, but Marcie and I certainly do need new shoes. After a mere 843.7 miles, our walking shoes are totally worn out…
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For those of you who might not have noticed, we took a brief hiatus from our blog. It's not that we've lost interest and it's certainly not because we couldn't find anything to write about (that never stopped us before). It's because of the darn heat. France has been suffering through a record setting heatwave. But, at last, the heatwave has broken, temps are now in the 70's-80's, and we're back in the groove…
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Marcie's case of shingles seems to be abating. Those suppurating, oozing pustules that covered her right arm and shoulder have scabbed over, and even the scabs are pretty much gone now. The pain from the neuropathy has lessened, but isn't totally gone yet, however, so she still can't carry her pack any distance. For the time being, we've been sticking to Plan B, which has worked pretty well for the most part, but we’ve come up with yet another plan - Plan C…
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.
