Lazarow World-Hike-About

Hi All, Shabbos was amazing here in this small town of Torrey, Utah. There are not too many places that one can sit in a motel room looking out a picture window at beautiful mountains bedazzled in sunlight during the day and watch the sunset in the evening. The main road in Torrey is a little over a mile long and has the standard general store, a couple of diners, the required gift shop, a US Post Office of course, and you will never guess...... a photographic gallery owned by an Israeli, whose magnificent photographs are on display. A walk through the town had us watching the horses in the meadows, see kids swing from ropes into a nearby creek and giving directions on numerous occasions, the irony being that even at home, we are directionally challenged. The motel owners are still probably shaking their heads as to the strange practices of the occupants of room #8. They bring their own lamps, set the tiny round table with a beautiful tablecloth, light candles, and they only left t...

We travel through the small towns to get to the mountains. We climb, we look at stunning beauty and when we reach the top, we ponder. When we are not thinking, we rest. On hot days, we rest more than we think. In cooler weather, we think more than we rest. The style of living in the towns fascinates us. Maybe we are strange. However, we don’t miss the high-rise buildings, the traffic and even the ballet or opera. One town we nearly missed, we counted five residents. Yes, five only. We stayed for coffee. Funnily enough, we couldn’t find a kosher deli. We did not wish to linger and have a census agent trace us. Imagine that. We would boost the population by 40% and end up paying a poll tax. We left in a hurry. Talking of census. The 4th book of Moses deals a lot with the idea of a census. We think though, it also means more about ‘stand up and be counted’ rather than just numbers. We hope the US Administration will work that out soon, if at all. All this climbing and hiking takes a toll ...