LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

Eastern Cape, South Africa: Storms River region.

'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.

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Winter desert sojourn: Who would have thought how beautiful, the deserts.


We published very few pictures of this trip at the time, so here is a supplemental set of fresh photographs. The beauty and wonder of the desert, something we hardly understood years back, continues to inspire and fill us with awe. Nevertheless, summer is a season during which we tend to have less awe, or seek cooler climes. With the aforementioned negative-implied judgment of deserts in mind, the following thought struck us: "We may be wiser because we know so much less and are unsure of so much more." ..."A Life Experience As No Other: Dare to Seize The Day..."

We completed our blogs from Argentina last week and head for Central Europe next week.


A view into Arizona and Lake Mead from Black Mountain, Boulder City, Nevada. (Fortification Hill, climbed from rear
a few days later.)





A view from above a balcony part-way up Angels landing, Zion National Park. The Virgin River flows below.




Color in the Mojave Desert.




Kelso Dunes, California, close to sunset.




Garnett Peak in Cleveland National forest, a particularly wonderful place.




Jenni reaches summit of Angels Landing, Zion National Park.




Sunset in Arizona viewed from Nevada.



Calico Canyon, Red Rock Park, Nevada...where to from here?





Lake Mead from Fortification Hill side, Arizona.





Golden sands at Kelso Dunes, California at sunset.





Amboy Crater, Mojave Desert, California.




Cuyumaca State Park, San Diego County.



Hamblin Peak, Nevada: A different view of Lake Mead.




Somewhere over...



Very formal and serious at the summit of Observation Point, Zion National Park, Utah.




Less formal and serious in Cleveland National Forest, San Diego County.




Back to the spectacular Lake Mead, Nevada.




Utah: Thirty minutes from Bryce Canyon.




Cheers,

Jenni and Jeffrey

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