Lazarow World-Hike-About

The day started out with every intention of doing a really big hike to Blue Lakes off the Million Dollar Highway. We left Grand Junction with me happily playing host to Jeff's computer on my lap, while we listened intently to our Rabbi's latest shiur. It was just over an hour later, when I thought that perhaps I should check the map. Ooops! We were headed East instead of South. I had been delegated the map reader and failed miserably. A GPS would take the fun out of road trips, is Jeff's conclusion. And so, we flipped a U-ey, a common occurrance on our travels and headed to Ouray from a different angle, seeing some stunning sights along the way. We were now too late to do the Blue Lakes hike which, we found out later was still closed due to heavy snow at the 11,300 ft level where we were due to climb. A blessing in disguise as I believe that this is when avalanches frequently occur due to melting snow at high levels. Anyway, we arrived in this gorgeous, quaint town ...

I had thought that today (Sunday) would not bring any adventures as we began our trip from Utah to Colorado. The only mildy interesting thing was our 'car wash' in the middle of the farmlands - stopping our car amid a crop-watering sprinkler system to clean us up. And so to was a sign advertising "Dried Worms" for $1.50. "mmm, I said - these folk in Utah eat strange things - must be a delicacy of some sort, just like biltong!" ... only to be told that the worms were for bait. I apologize to all those fishermen out there. And onto Colorado we travelled, arriving in Grand Junction in searing heat and our next climb. Contribution by Jeff.....(for which I humbly thank him) We left Utah on Sunday, although each day but the Sabbath, seems the same for us. Why not? We hike, we climb, we undertake business, we see wonderful sights, we meet mountain people, sometimes even wild animals; we visit towns, galleries and supermarkets and then collapse into bed. As you...