Lazarow World-Hike-About: Second Cover Page

LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

The greatest canyon of all (Grand Canyon). Jen is stuck behind a western horse-party. Hay! Hey, Let the lady through.

'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 three, or slightly less, 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 2024, the blog contained over 1,636 hikes (far less than 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. Our 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, November 17, 2019

Second Cover Page

From on high, we take a peek into the town of Smolyan, one of the larger regions of the middle Rhodopes.

When we came across this set of 'via ferrata', I got excited and my charming wife read me the 'riot act'. After a frank and fruitful discussion which included a number of issues including her asking for the car keys, we reached an agreement and I was permitted to climb to the top of the first of 2 sections. We returned a few days later and I had her blessing for the full climb and return. She stated she would not watch but wanted to take photographs. It had me fooled but at that stage all I wanted to do was climb, whether she watched or took photographs or neither. Terrific. After I returned, I was walking up toward a viewpoint and something made me turn. There she was, beginning a climb on the rungs. What happened to all the protesting of the previous week?

Ascending somewhere in a beautiful land, Iceland.

Summer in Iceland. We did not think to pack skis. 'But' he managed as we return from Mount Sulur.

Lazarow World-Hike-About