LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

Tenerife: Sunbeams filter through the forest.

'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 three, or slightly less, 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 2024, the blog contained over 1,636 hikes (far less than 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

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Thursday, May 15, 2025

67.01 Tenerife, Spain: An opener at Mesa del Mar, Tacoronte.

The Atlantic is not gentle.
Looks like everything and anything goes flying after a pounding.
  We returned to Tenerife, Spain after a more than a 2-year gap. Seems longer but calendars don't lie. While we usually have much to say and try not to always say it, jetlag is a big help in causing a slowdown. We are also beginning to think some of the toughest hikes are no match for international travel, which is filled with much tension and worry as planes are delayed frequently. This creates frustration and concern about being on time to collect a vehicle (before it's cancelled), checking into an apartment late at night and so many other issues. As we mentioned, the hiking and mountain challenges are the easy aspects. 

  While air travel might be tough, the miracle of flight never ceases to amaze us. And for one of us who struggles to find his way to the corner shop, the thought of finding the airport after crossing continents becomes even more meaningful. 

'House on the Hill' with echoes of Beatles.
Try lugging the baggage down to this apartment...we didn't, just backpacks.
A hop, skip and jump and a person arrives at the top in no-time.
Jen heading toward destination after more than an hour from commencement.
After some tricky climbing on our first outing, the wind added an element of...excitement.

Returning to the top.
Mount Teide (volcano) peeks from the clouds. 
Cheers, 

Jenni and Jeffrey

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