Lazarow World-Hike-About

Scenery is a knockout, taken from part-way up our mountain. This is a winner: It shows the scenery and the struggle. It's hiking (ascending at its best). Invariably, I cannot help but take excess photographs of this scene. Unfortunately, I'm running out of film. A different view of the Colorado River.   Jen begins the descent. Without wishing to bore a would-be reader, it behooves me to mention that this hike was a milestone. Briefly, I believe that one of the issues in growing older or unfortunately, suffering ill-health, is that a person is unable to perform tasks, undertake activities and live generally, as one did in earlier years. I find that most frustrating and a deep concern. Having to resign oneself to an inability to do what was done before, is a comedown—I believe it can be debilitating. Fortunately, I did get over playing rugby, soccer etc. because while I'm not smart, I do have some perspective. Tackling a 180-pound fella running ...

Reflections of our minds as the Colorado negotiates another bend. Hitting the spot.  Looking through our window, we view magnificent sights which include Glen Canyon dam, the vast, colorful desert with a backdrop of mountains, the latter, many miles distant. Although we cannot see the waterflow, the Colorado River is close by, too. Below us is a golf course and a neighborhood consisting of wonderful Adobe style houses. We suppose it could be worse. About a mile to the west is a body of bright, blue water that we thought might act as a source for the residents. We wondered. While on a hike today, we came across a sign that read: ‘USBR’. We wondered, too. Because we are very smart, we thought the US probably stands for United States. Sometimes, we even surprise ourselves. We are not keen to use ‘Google’ on every occasion we have a question and with Encyclopedia Brittanica a little cumbersome to ‘schlepp’ around, we thought we’ll work it out eventually. After all, between the two of...

No wonder why we love Page, Az. Ups-and-downs along the water. Considering the ultimate leap of faith...stupidity. Could look at the scenes in this region all day. 'Voortrekker Monument' (South African look-alike) comes into view. A scene from last year. When we reached the end of the waterway for the kayak, we hiked in the canyon. Currently, we are hiking above the canyon. The famous 'Antelope Canyon' tourist attractions are about 1.5 miles further up. We found this place even more spectacular. This end of the canyon can only be reached by boat.  Over the years , we came to realize much is not what it seems in the wilderness. Most mountains are higher than they appear, trails and scrambling routes are more difficult than when viewed from afar, and distances appear shorter than actual. Perhaps some of us are naturally optimistic of things we favor. Of course, this is probably the fault of our subjectivity, and particularly mine (Jeffrey).    We're ba...