LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

KwaZulu-Natal: South Africa: The top of the Tugela Falls, the world's second highest...someone forgot to turn on the tap. Big surprise! (Beyond the chain ladders and the Sentinel).

'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.

Monday, May 20, 2024

62.21 Nevada, Reno: Beauty, tranquility, color, harmony, power and charm...something to witness in order to aid a re-balance...Hike-about 62.

  The photographs below are a handful, not covering the full hike, but published to satisfy our need of beauty, of some magnificence. 

After 3 or more miles, we reach a set of towers on a mountain where we ate brunch and digested the views. The combination of the snow-capped mountains of substance, the lake to our side, the clouds appearing to emulate the range in form and the position itself, plus the delightful spring coloring, combined to create a unique and uplifting sight and feeling.
We noticed, only later, the United States Flag on the side of the mountain. We read the following excerpt about it: 'The C(arson) Hill Flag measures 120 feet by 65 feet. Google-map "Carson City," and the flag shows up in satellite images. Its story has inspired U.S. troops serving in combat. It has spawned a business, a marriage and a baby. Sep 11, 2011.' 

The range is overpowering, the snow lies thick, we are in awe while the US flag, although flat, is nevertheless dignified.
Here's the water referred to above, in the earlier stages of the hike.
Jen commencing her climb above the lake and into the wilderness.
We suppose that might be wilderness as Jen prepares for and up-and-over.
We come over a mountain and discover the towers on a hill below.
Jen takes the opportunity to address the 'Village People' at a magnificent venue.
A time of reflection, a chance to challenge uncharted waters, an opportunity to take action.
Cheers, 

Jenni and Jeffrey 

PS These two drivers were so incensed by her words of kindness and of 'Do not do unto others...' that they lost control of both themselves and vehicles: 'Cry the Beloved Country' continues...(under editor's licence obviously).

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