Lazarow World-Hike-About

We are currently on 'vacation' from Hike-about. We resume toward the latter part of May—from that period, we hope to see you in Slovenia. In the meantime, we have a book available, " A Life Experience As No Other: Dare to Seize The Day Together " that might be exciting to anyone interested in 'living on the road' and having a good time. Actually, it's a lot more than that but then this blog would be another 250 pages. To tell you the truth, we keep examining ourselves to ensure that we don't slack off. Hike-about pushes us to grow, to change our environment and seek opportunities to try to reach our potential. We may sweat much but it's an awful lot of fun. By the way, the theme is not about hiking although that's what we do; in fact, it's about following one's passion in life. Why would we not want to seek that! Click...Link to Publisher   Click...Link to Electronic Journal article Book website The few pictures below are around M...

The time spent in the Grampians involved rock scrambling aplenty. Although the mountains aren't that high (this is Australia, after all), climbing the rocks is quite spectacular. We loved them and had wonderful experiences on and up them. We do realize that many of the pictures taken show us in various positions on these mountains. It's our opinion that a human subject brings out the best in those rocks. We sought out various so-called human subjects and decided we were the best available. We were also the most modest along the Grampian range. There is no truth in the rumor that one of us was showing off...again. Be that as it may, there is some truth in each assertion made but for the showing off aspect. Let the games begin...actually, they commenced two hours before. Great traction on these rocks but not wide enough to be casual. "You see that tree over there...yes, the green one?" Jenni seeks height vertically. Every now and again one fin...

Reaching the peak, Mount Alford, overlooking rich farmlands. This is the last posting of New Zealand (not that anything is expected to happen in that country to make it disappear) to be followed by a finale from Australia. After a trip that we would both agree was hard to beat, besides the fact the mountain challenges were spectacular and we succeeded now and again, we met so many interesting people and had some equally fascinating experiences. Obviously, they are too numerous to mention. Nevertheless, something innocuous, which one of us found both amusing and delightful but would probably be most uninteresting to anyone else occurred on the last day of the Abel Tasman tramp. I would think Jenni enjoyed it too, particularly the taste of it. (see below...) When we were part way up one of the mountains, we expected the white structure to be the end point. This is a 'zoomed in' picture of the structure in the picture above, from the top. We misjudged that one on Al...

Jen comes out of Australia's 'Grand Canyon'. One of our highlights , the reason we are visiting Australia, is to gain a much needed dose of our niece, Romy Klotnick. Romy is the daughter of the late Wendy, our sister. Wendy would be extremely proud of Romy (as well as her two other daughters), for this young woman has demonstrated courage, initiative and generosity beyond expectations (and continues to do so.) We stand in awe as we salute Romy. The Grampians are a wonderful place for children of all ages, that is from the very young to those born in the middle of the last century and earlier. It allows a hiker to climb on rocks as a person makes his/her way up to the various peaks. In fact, although there are trails, one can immerse oneself in rock scrambling, allowing one to reach the top via a different route each time. It is an opportunity to have an awful lot of fun which is exactly what we did. Big surprise! We mentioned how friendly the Australasians are—it m...