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. Our 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."
Hi, folks. I stand in awe of your spirit of adventure, but more so, I think, of your compassion for and insight into the circumstances of the people you've encountered on your travels. I agree fully with your sentiments on the real "apartheid," wherever one might travel, and that there's little to be done about it. Sad but true.
We've just emerged almost unscathed from another typical African dip at democracy. It's at best skin deep and will never change anything, especially for the poorest. We all knew this before last week's elections, but many of us voted anyway, cutting the ruling party's majority to around 58%, but with a concerning growth in the radical populist bunch. It was inevitable.
Democracy is no more than lip service in Africa, and in particular is used in SA to keep alive the "legacy" of saint Nelson. It's all false, but there are none so blind as those who are told that the ancestral spirits are watching where they make their crosses in the polling booth. Africa dances to its own beat - it's eternal, a fact of life and of the future.
BUT. It's a grand place to be. Just my thoughts.
Thanks you again for your faithful correspondence. I always look forward to the next instalment and enjoy it when it arrives. Take much care.
Always a pleasure to receive your comments and wisdom, thank you Doug. You raise, as always, interesting points well worth thinking about and ripe for discussion. Unfortunately, your wisdom is wasted on those too foolish to realize what is good and correct for the country. What a sad situation. Take care!
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Hi, folks. I stand in awe of your spirit of adventure, but more so, I think, of your compassion for and insight into the circumstances of the people you've encountered on your travels. I agree fully with your sentiments on the real "apartheid," wherever one might travel, and that there's little to be done about it. Sad but true.
We've just emerged almost unscathed from another typical African dip at democracy. It's at best skin deep and will never change anything, especially for the poorest. We all knew this before last week's elections, but many of us voted anyway, cutting the ruling party's majority to around 58%, but with a concerning growth in the radical populist bunch. It was inevitable.
Democracy is no more than lip service in Africa, and in particular is used in SA to keep alive the "legacy" of saint Nelson. It's all false, but there are none so blind as those who are told that the ancestral spirits are watching where they make their crosses in the polling booth. Africa dances to its own beat - it's eternal, a fact of life and of the future.
BUT. It's a grand place to be. Just my thoughts.
Thanks you again for your faithful correspondence. I always look forward to the next instalment and enjoy it when it arrives. Take much care.
Doug.
Always a pleasure to receive your comments and wisdom, thank you Doug. You raise, as always, interesting points well worth thinking about and ripe for discussion. Unfortunately, your wisdom is wasted on those too foolish to realize what is good and correct for the country. What a sad situation.
Take care!
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