LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

San Ramon: At first, I thought it needed explanation. Not true. Top Left: "You're kidding me. After hiking 4 miles from the base below, you still want to climb up there...and snakes...?" The stance revealed it all. The rest is self-explanatory, too. (Not part of the formal trail either).

'LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT: WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HIKE-ABOUT?'

Hike-about is an adventure that commenced June 2010. After storing our household movables, ridding ourselves of a house but retaining our 'home' together, we set off with the purpose of hiking in different parts of the world, not forgetting the home country, the USA.

Our primary focus is hiking to mountain peaks but any challenging hike will do just fine. Extended stays enable us to enjoy and experience living in various places amongst differing cultures. Hike-about has evolved into a way of life. It's also a process of discovery, both the world and ourselves.

We work and live 'on the road' but return to the city in which our grandchildren reside, every couple of months. This provides us the wonderful opportunity to be with them as well as a child or two, even three and of course, friends.

By the end of 2023, the blog contained over 1,560 hikes (less than that actually undertaken), each a set of pictures with stories and anecdotes from the trails. An index to the right allows the viewer to identify earlier experiences.

Finally, we are often asked about the journey's end.
O
ur reply, as accurate as we can state, is: "When we are either forced to cease through health issues or the enjoyment level no longer reaches our aspirations, we will hang up the boots."

"A Life Experience As No Other: Dare to Seize the Day Together", published by Fulton Books, depicts our life on the road and mountains until the beginning of 2017. It has developed 'exponentially' since then.

Jenni and Jeffrey Lazarow

Whereas we continue to update the blog regularly, we circulate email notifications infrequently.

Friday, June 17, 2016

Mount Woodson, always a surprise from nature


Over the years, we have realized that nature provides unique scenes each moment of the day, never to be replicated. While the scenery can change from one extreme to the other although it might seem at times to be similar, there are always variances. Perhaps that's a metaphor for life as each moment will never be repeated; it might be similar but it will never be the same. When we left at 4:55am for the mountain, there were no clouds anywhere in San Diego. We anticipated ordinary scenery. We should have known better. At one stage, actually a few times, we were mesmerized by the scenes of clouds, mist or fog. The mountain ranges were stacked behind one another in varying degrees of visibility based upon the layer of mist. What a view!

We'll see you from Israel, Spain, a little France and Andorra, a lot.


This photograph sets the tone for the views on the hike.








Depending on the position of the sun, the colors may vary much.




Couldn't resist the rock scramble to stand before the magnificent backdrop.




Aha! Well, that's what we thought.





Facing almost directly into the rising sun.




What makes you think 'We like'?




One for the road.




Cheers,


Jenni and Jeffrey

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