Lazarow World-Hike-About: 69.21 Bulgaria: Yogadina: A decent hike up to Eagle Eye while viewing heavenly sites/sights, both up-and back.

LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

Canicada Dam, Geres, Portugal...a place of home reflections

'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. 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

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Sunday, November 2, 2025

69.21 Bulgaria: Yogadina: A decent hike up to Eagle Eye while viewing heavenly sites/sights, both up-and back.

From the initial starting point, the colors seemed reasonable, nothing extraordinary. As we gained elevation, things changed and quite dramatically, in fact, drastically. The higher we reached, the further into the distance our views increased until we could see to the mountains in the far distance, incorporating the valleys in-between. The light changed which further enhanced the colors as well as lit up shadows cast earlier when the sun was obviously lower in the sky. It became overwhelming, for wherever we looked, the scenes were basking in color, baskets of rich coloring in fact, saturated in the brightest of autumn offerings. Frankly, we don't recall seeing anything as dramatic as the sights seen on that Thursday morning in early autumn.

I did not need to photograph more than I had taken after an hour of climbing. Nevertheless, knowing I had enough pictures to capture the atmosphere on that mountain and the surrounds, I found it impossible not to continue with the next scene and then that one; how could I leave off the one just ahead or even right behind me? I conceded to my desire to continue to saturate myself through the camera with everything that looked even slightly different from what I had already seen and captured. It was a wonderful battle to lose.

Sometimes, one fails completely and yet comes out a winner; someone who has been favored to see and experience the best available. Of course, thereafter, the next scene that differs only slightly, then assumes the number one spot. Isn't it amazing that one can be sated with such sights and sites although on a temporary basis only? These magnificent 'prizes' do not belong to one, neither are they owned, but merely something to which one is exposed, yet leave an indelible mark in one's memory, residing somewhere in the soul forever. A true blessing! The ultimate gift.

The pictures from this hike, at least a few of them, have been included in videos posted earlier. Nevertheless, those below differ although of similar scenes, of course.

Finally, we separate the pictures with water in 3 places to neutralize the color strain upon the eyes.