LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

Tenerife, Spain: Looking back to check that our car is safe.

'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."

"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.

Monday, August 9, 2021

Places and Photographs that touch a person...and make the world a far better place...at least, for some of us.


We remember when we loved going to movies on a Saturday evening in Johannesburg some 50 years ago. What a memory! After intermission but before the main feature, the prime time spot was reserved for the advertisement of the day. A cigarette promotion invariably dominated the screen. Often, it was Rothmans of Pall Mall. The advert promoted the City of London (probably the cigarette, too) and concluded with the words: "When a person is tired of London, one is tired of life." It was impressive.

However, in retrospect, after experiencing the weather, smog, traffic and crowds, I think not to be tired is probably a more serious issue. Rather, we would express it slightly differently: "When a person is tired of nature, one is truly tired of life." An opinion, of course...(long live the Queen). 

Crater Lake, Oregon. 
  On Mount Hood, Oregon.
 Approaching top of Tugela Falls, Sentinel, Drakensberg.
 A view from Indian Venster hike, Cape Town. (Probably my favorite).
 Lion's Head from a trail on Table Mountain, Cape Town.
 Argentina, sunrise.
 Haleakala Volcano, Maui, Hawaii.
 Barenschutz Klamm, Austria.
 Hungary.
 A scene in the Drakensberg, the Sentinel in the distance. 
San Carlos Bariloche, Argentina.
 Croatia.
 Slovakia coloring.
 Golden Canyon, Death Valley, California.
 The peak beyond is the target, in Slovenia.
 A view from the above peak, Mount Svinjac, Julian Mountains.
 Low Tatras: Chopok: A Stairway from Heaven.
 Top of Tugela: World's 2nd highest. 
Spis Castle, Slovakia.
 La Reunion, French Indian Ocean Island.
 Sentinel reveals itself, Drakensberg.

Polejan Peak in Bulgaria.
Iguazu Falls, Argentina.
 View from Sulur Peak, Iceland.
 Norton Ridge, Idaho.
 Cumutura, Romania.
 Driemond, Western Cape.
 Colorado River from top of Spenser Trail. 
Lake Bled, Slovenia.
 Sedona, Arizona.
 Catalina Island, California.
 Devil's Throat, Iguazu Falls, Argentina. (Brazil behind to left.)
 Ascending Mount Sulur, Iceland.
 Mount Ngauruhoe, New Zealand.
 Far side of Delicate Arch, Utah.
 About to step upon Yellow Mountain, Utah.
 Machu Picchu, Peru. Heading up to the mountain peak of the same name.
 Roosevelt Dam, Arizona.
 India Venster, Cape Town. Smolensk, Bulgaria.
 Heading for Vihren Peak, Bulgaria.
 Arrived safely (see picture above), Mount Vihren.
 Golden Canyon, Death Valley, California.
 Cheers, 

Jenni and Jeffrey
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