Lazarow World-Hike-About

We'd only approached the other side of this peak on previous visits. It proved to be a wonderful day with great challenges, views and a certain serenity. Never turn your back on a cliff. When Jen and I have a disagreement, we each take to our own peak, display some pique and peek at each other from our respective peaks. Then when we become uncomfortably nervous at the edge, we rejoin and realize there are deeper/higher issues than our piques, particularly those of tumbling over the peak. Each day, Lake Havasu/Colorado River seems to be more attractive. In years past, I would 'kid' that in the next life, I'd prefer 4 legs. Now I no longer joke about it. There's always a unique angle of vision on each hike in this region.   Over the years, we learned much from books, lectures and other people. Hopefully, we continue to accumulate knowledge each day although I'd prefer it to be wisdom. However, it became clear that the best learning comes from expe...

Stirring up a little in the desert.   Growing up in a country outside the United States exposed one to some of the culture of the latter via movies. The cowboys of the western states made an impression upon a boy, certainly this one. I became a ‘violent youth’ who armed himself with a revolver (parental provided plastic), sometimes a lasso which I was unable to use through lack of dexterity, often a knife (rubber) while searching for crooks and in those days, Red Indians, too. Of course, today the correct terminology would be Native Americans and I suppose cowboys would be fitted with a derogatory term, in keeping with apparently 'progressive' thinking. Jen and I have simple minds. We do discriminate. However, we try to limit it between decent and indecent people, a term espoused by Viktor Frankel, a holocaust survivor.    After that somewhat long introduction, we arrived in the Tonto National Forest to enjoy our fourth stay in less than that many years. When w...