LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

New Zealand: Tongariro Alpine Crossing: Ngauruhoe Volcano ("Mt. Doom"), a perfect sunrise.

'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, December 9, 2018

37.28 Serbia: Rtanj vrh Siljak, a special occasion. 37.29 Serbia: Sokobanja, an explosion of color in the mountains and at the Fortress.

It was an exciting climax to an incredible period in Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia, this, the last hike taking place in Serbia. It does not often work out that one (or in our case, two) end up with the last hike maintaining a standard that was superior. We had identified the hike prior to arriving in Serbia. On a Monday morning, we drove on a quiet road to a small village and fortunately, found the trail-beginning on our second attempt. Once again, we spent our day alone in a beautiful region surrounded by trees coated in many autumn colors, prior to breaking the tree line and continuing the ascent up a second and third mountain and through the clouds. At the peak, a destroyed church dating to 1932 lies in ruin. Nevertheless, we were most pleased and relieved to arrive at the pinnacle, even before the 'padre'.

The hike was fairly long, we forget the distance, but well over 2,000 feet in ascent on an eerie-like day, especially at higher altitude.

Farewell, to Eastern Europe, a region that has suffered much turmoil but such history is not reflected in the beauty of the natural elements...and they are indeed beautiful and rugged.


After a short walk, we enter the forest which looks delightful.




Becomes a little eerie.




Out of the forests, into the clouds.




'All on our own' in a big, wide world on a mountain-above-a-mountain.




Arrival




Church remnants of destructive forces on a windy summit.




View from summit of the first plateau high above ground-level.




Departure.



Sokobanja, Serbia.



Soko Grad.








Down memory lane?




A painting, we think.




A different perspective from above Soko Grad.




Another 'splash'.



Cheers,

Jenni and Jeffrey

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