LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

San Ramon: At first, I thought it needed explanation. Not true. Top Left: "You're kidding me. After hiking 4 miles from the base below, you still want to climb up there...and snakes...?" The stance revealed it all. The rest is self-explanatory, too. (Not part of the formal trail either).

'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.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

17.13 Pictures without words, the Southern Drakensberg, Kenmo Lake and others.


We did say this blog is without words. It's almost accurate but for the introduction to set the scene
and captions in assisting with photograph interpretation or at least, location. We hope you enjoy these; we
certainly were thrilled to see the scenes first-hand.
We set the alarm clock for 5:30am in order to beat the sun to a lake. Sometimes we don't recognize ourselves
as our lifestyle dictates that we align ourselves differently from our earlier years.



A lake we passed on the way to Kenmo, the mist thick before daybreak, while the sun reddens
the mountain tops.




'Eagle has landed...oops, actually, Egyptian Geese arrive after a very long journey.




Soon after dawn, complete silence before the birds began to chirp and chat.



A lesson learned from the birds was to watch and listen to them embrace the morning with excitement and
we suppose, joy.




The sun hits the right spot deep into autumn with mist beginning to lift.



A view of the destination, our hike to Sani Pass extreme right; photo taken at sunset.



The other bank as the mist thickens.



A lonely duck.



The rising sun catches the trees at the end of the lake.

The following is an insight into a special day in which we experienced some of the best times ever. A full blog or two on the Mont-aux-Sources Hike, will follow next week:



Jenni approaching chain ladders on way down from Tugela Falls, Mont-aux-Sources.



She did it, I knew she could do it and she did indeed: Eliza.



A feeling of being on top of the world, Sentinel Hike.



The subject is looking at the Tugela Falls, the second highest in the world.



We see only happiness in this picture.


Cheers,

Jenni and Jeffrey

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