1 Nephi 17:4-6

It seems that there were no other major events that happened while Lehi's family traveled in the wilderness, at least none that Nephi felt he should share with us. After eight years of traveling, they reach the sea. Eight years is a long time to get anywhere, and they haven't even arrived at their final destination yet. However, this is a major milestone. Here is a comment from the Book of Mormon Institute manual on this topic:

"Lehi’s people were strengthened both spiritually and physically as they wandered in the wilderness. Through their hardships they were prepared to establish a civilization in the new world. Nephi comments that the Lord “did straiten [the Israelites] in the wilderness with his rod” (1 Nephi 17:41). Certainly the eight years in the deserts of the Arabian peninsula did much to prepare Lehi’s family."

Well, if you compare their sojourn in the wilderness to the forty-year wandering of the Israelites in the wilderness, eight isn't so bad.

They come to a land flowing with fruit and wild honey. They call it Bountiful. Compared to what they were used to while traveling, this must have been like heaven. It is interesting to note that the fruit and honey and all the comforts of Bountiful were prepared of the Lord that they might not perish. He is taking good care of them, as He does all His children who follow the commandments. Everything we have is of the Lord. If we earn our money, we must thing who was it that blessed us with a job to earn it? I know that my family has been truly blessed. The sea that they come to, which is most likely the Indian Ocean (which connects to the Pacific Ocean), they name Irreantum, or "many waters." Finally, Nephi shares with us that they passed though so many afflictions, they they cannot be written in this book. This happens every once in a while in the Book of Mormon. In my youth, I had wished that they could have said more and let us in on all the parts where Mormon or Moroni said this. However, now, I believe that they included the most important and precious parts of their ministry for us in our day (see Jacob 4). So, what we have is the most important of all their happenings.