LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

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.
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

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Thursday, May 26, 2022

54.23 Drakensberg: Features at the Retreat and elsewhere: Carpe Diem, Gail and Mannie, wherever you may be. 54.24 Dumbe, a massive farm close-by.

We think the scenes, well some of them, from the Drakensberg Retreat, provide proof that we inhabit a beautiful world. A low-key approach without big scenes but rather ordinary views grow upon a person until ones realizes one is actually witnessing the big views after all. Heck, it really is a privilege to witness what seems ordinary until one realizes nothing is ordinary—seek and you shall find, spend time outdoors, and they will find you. 

Jen and I feel privileged knowing that each day, we will see or experience something special. We remember the early days, we wondered whether there would be anything worthwhile on view, particularly after a spectacular outing. Then, not long after this initial erroneous thought, things changed. Keep the senses tuned, spend time outdoors or at worst, peer through a window, and we know we will witness, if not a miracle, something close to it. 

May all blessed with the health to appreciate life, seize it. 

On the way out of the building to find us a mountain after completing 12 years of Hike-about. Many asked us in the initial years how long we intended to pursue this nonse...um...activity. Looks like we reached a dozen thus far. Here's hoping... 

Calm in the wilderness. 
An eland enjoying the grass close to the Retreat. (The grass is always 'yellower' on the other side.)
The Amphitheatre.
Continuing south from above photograph. Cathedral Peak comes into view. We reached it when we were younger, stronger and less wise.
Climbing in the mountains beyond Dumbe. If asked, I would say this scene depicts what Hike-about is all about. In fact, what a relationship should strive to be. We fall short but keep trying.
Surprised to find such color beyond Dumbe to the side of the Retreat.
A 'tame' wild horse. Go figure!
Mountains reflect?
A big mountain/lake scene.
'That box you keep pointing at me is beginning to get to me, Son'.
'We've looked at clouds from both sides now...'.
'Morning has broken, light the first hour.' (Cathkin Peak on the far left.)
When we were growing up (presumes it occurred), we called this necking.
Cheers, 

Jenni and Jeffrey

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