LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

Nepal: Evening below Annapurna.

'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.

Thursday, November 10, 2016

28.24 Evia, Greece: Fixated on a fire spotter employment opportunity and some concluding highlights from Greece.



"Come up and see me sometime, Mae".




"You want me, big boy, get your bu..down here," the editor counters as she pukes...um peaks.




Meantime, encouraged by the editor's response, he takes off on boulder hopping with glee only to return to earth
a second later with a bump or two. Will he ever learn? The answer is self-evident.





A view of Steni Dyrfios, one of the main reasons we went to the island. On the day set aside for the climb, the weather turned us back.




Fooling around (with much care) on the rocks below the peak.




The port of Eretrea, calm and tranquil.





A handful of highlights from Greece
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When walking along the cliff edges, surrounded by icons, edifices and monoliths while taking in the stupendous views, one realizes how insignificant we are in the greater picture. On second thoughts, one also realizes how fortunate one is to stand in such wondrous places with memories that are sometimes overpowering, intimidating and humbling but always uplifting. It matters not that one is insignificant but rather that one passed this way and perhaps took something from the experience and maybe, left a little of oneself, too.


Rising on Mount Gingilos, Crete and looking down into Samaria gorge.




Colors falling into autumn on Mount Olympus, close to the base.




Part of the trail before rock scrambling on Mount Gingilos.





Between Hora Sfakion and Lutro, Crete, we go examining an edge.




Down into the canyon and up the opposite mountain, Delphi.




The town of Kirra, 6 miles away by foot, through olive plantations, lit by the early morning sunlight.




Jenni at the peak of one of the nicest hikes we've done, Mount Gingilos again.




'Stone mountain' on Mount Olympus.




The Olympus forests are gorgeous; Jenni approaches the end of the hike.




Peak of Gerontovrachos in Parnassos National Park.





Between the gap, another monastery in Meteora.




Sailing into the sunset from Hora Sfakion, Crete.




On trail, Gingilos again. Obviously, loved the place and the climb.




A couple of antiquities, the famous one is on the left at ground level. (Town of Delphi below).




From Athina, a night view of the Acropolis.




Epitomizes some of the struggles. Although not the toughest hike by a long way, it was a meaningful picture for me (Jeffrey) on Mount Olympus, Greece's highest.



We'd like to thank those people who take an interest in the blog and by extension, worry about Jenni falling off mountains. A special acknowledgment goes to Maude, Joanne and Ron, Jonna as well as Hil. Finally, to Barry Jahn, who takes our twisted logic and gives it another twist which usually makes it understandable or at least, what we try to convey. Thank you to many for amusing us—it makes life that much more meaningful and fun.


Cheers,

Jenni and Jeffrey

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