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.

Sunday, January 7, 2018

34.02 Birds in Autumn while walking up and over Mount Woodson from Poway Lake and down the other side to arrive at Highway 67.


A personal interest in birds and animal life in the wilds has been growing for a number of years. I can remember as a teenager that ornithology was considered by macho teenagers as something of a wimpish interest. These days it is more and more fascinating and creates another reason to be based in the outdoors as often as possible. I think there are at least two pursuits of many, in which a person who is feeling down in the dumps should consider. The first is looking at the world through a young child's eyes. The second is to gather around a marsh or body of water or wherever birds congregate, preferably in the early hours of the morning. Then listen to the chirping and observe their general busy manner. They appear so excited to be enjoying the dawn of another day and sharing it together. It's infectious. And if a simple bird is happy to be alive, how much more should we be.

The editor might say this preamble is a justification for displaying more than usual number of birds on the blog recently. She may well be correct.



And I thought an Osprey was a military helicopter/plane. (An unusually bleak day for San Diego).




Dull day brings out the coloring. (Still autumn in winter...huh?)




"You keep pointing that thing at me and I'll change my diet from fish to meat."




Never lose sight of the mountains.




A setting of silver and gold.




Something caught the eye; hopefully, not the editor.




The bears in San Diego have hibernated but as yet, not the leaves. (How do we know this? Look at the leaves. And, we haven't come across any bears. Friends, this is not complicated stuff.)




We've heard about a 'fly-by night' so we suppose this is a fly-by day.



Water boulders or the 'bold and beautiful'.




Last one. Took an awful lot of patience so please indulge us.



Cheers,

Jenni and Jeffrey


We call this flying under the radar with pelicans. (Jenni has had enough of "my birds". She has resorted to referring to them as my ducks. I'm getting a message...I think. But I still love my ducks...er pelicans.)




I ask you, "Can you see any bears?"




"Let's unite and fly the friendly skies." One can see the similarity with a plane...at least, I do.




On a sunny day, we meet again. This time it's letting passing seagulls know it's not amused with their
presence in its space.


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