Lazarow World-Hike-About: 64.04 Portugal: 'Autumn has broken, like the first Fall': A quick introductory peek into the new season.

LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

Eastern Cape, South Africa: Storms River region.

'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. Our 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.

Sunday, October 6, 2024

64.04 Portugal: 'Autumn has broken, like the first Fall': A quick introductory peek into the new season.

At this stage of the trip, we have hiked much more in rain than on clear days. Full sunshine is not something we've seen much of and partial can mean 2 minutes of appearance within an hour. Nevertheless, Geres is proving to be a mystical spot, a magical place, well, to express it bluntly, a wonderful town but far more importantly, a treasure in the wilderness.

We wrote a few days previously about autumn colors and what we might expect relative to the state of Utah. Preceding today's formal posting, we included a few photographs from a big hike, mostly in rain, to offer a comparison. Although we are not at all discouraged by the poor weather, actually enjoying being wet except behind the ears, it does affect the views. That can be a bit of a downer and yet there still are compensating situations.

Numerous waterfalls: never seen more on a single mountain. (Of course, 'married', that's different.)

Might be termed 'in the thick of things'.

Gets worse or better, depending on one's perspective.

The 'wet look' before deciding it might be intelligent to at least cover the backpack.

Jen about to enter the thicker parts of the forest and having to cross numerous waterfalls.

We have never before had our boots and lower legs covered completely in water on so many occasions during one hike. Be grateful you cannot smell our boots.