Lazarow World-Hike-About

The sun kisses the mountains and rocks, 'goodnight'. (Nature has a gentle side, too.) Sedona has always been a special place for us. It's the first town in which we really 'clicked' upon visiting it more than twenty years ago. We would think it's difficult not to find something special about the layout of the place, particularly that it's surrounded by red and yellow mountains and rocks, many in the town itself. Well, often wrong but we don't believe so in this instance. There are a number of firsts for us in the town besides the aforementioned. On Cathedral Rock during our second visit, Jenni called me a 'wuss'. Her meaning: 'I was a scared little boy'. At the time, I was afraid of heights and as we sat on a rock looking down into an abyss, I developed some negative feelings. After fleeing the position, with the tone and meaning of her words playing through my mind, I stopped, turned around and raced up to the top. A decisive...

We've limited the photographs posted in this section to almost exclusively of autumn coloring, alpine lake reflections and a few desert scenes. The main exceptions are five from the Himalayas. It was a typical period of adventure and discovery although the years tend to improve each time or so it seems. 2019 included two trips within the Western United States, two overseas trips, one in Nepal for near on two months and the other, in Eastern Europe for three months with stopovers in China and South Africa respectively, an additional week in the latter. The trip within Europe included Poland, Slovakia and a large portion of the period living in Bulgaria. We passed through Germany, Hungary and Serbia to reach our hiking destinations. Within the United States, we concentrated our time in Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah our favorite, and Idaho. We seemed to cover less territory because of more in depth stays at fewer places. Works for us. Finally, the weighting of the pictures is t...