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

Whereas we continue to update the blog regularly, we circulate email notifications infrequently.

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

56:13 Tonto Basin, Arizona: Heaven on Earth; it's that simple. The irony: Via cemetery hike.

'Little House on the Prairie'.
Lakeview?
  
 I believe it's understandable that we appear to be consumed by the wonderful challenges we face on the mountains, the magnificent natural scenes in the wilderness and the blessing of relative freedom. Furthermore, that I appear to exaggerate the beauty, I do accept...maybe. However, I have two counters to that contention. After all, I just remembered a concept that is pertinent. 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder'. Who knows what it means but it sure works for one of us. The other partner sees the beauty too; however, she is a little more reserved about it. The second contention is that "You had to be there."   
  
 Frankly, none of that really matters. That I walk around in a daze most of the day on the trails, cross-country and on mountain slopes means that I am in complete awe of what we see, experience, witness and absorb. Please! Don't take it away from us. 

Sometimes, we just stare and stare, but try not to be rude.
Somewhere on our return.
What's that protruding, Jen? We had climbed through at least three canyons, up-and-down, so we achieved gain but lost it soon thereafter. At the beginning of the hike, we passed a closed cemetery—the best kind.
I do believe that's where Teddy stretches his bones over the lake.
I wanted to say, 'We bumped into a brick wall but that might be inaccurate.'
There are lakes and then there are lakes.
A body coming through the rye? Moving sprightly, no thorns today.
Love it. How do we leave this place? (Expecting some wise replies. Problem when you have such smart friends.)
On our previous visit, I was a little too intimate with one of these 'ladies'. I paid a sharp price.
Probably a good place to close.
Cheers, 

Jenni and Jeffrey

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