Wow Azerbaijan!

Beautiful Azerbaijan!
The highest peak Shadag "King Mountain" hike last weekend in May.











Su, our guide (unpronouncible name) the pretty white pony and I met a very few individuals along the sheep filled valleys of the high Caucus mountains. Gorgeous scenary, beautiful weather and 1000's of sheep. Camron walking beside the horse, was an interesting multilingual (Azieri, Russian, Lesgian, English and another language I can't remember) sheep herder/owner (he claimed to own all the sheep within eye range at one point)/mountain guide. Bright as they come... You could almost see the wheels in his head churning around with all the new English words he picked up from us in our short visit. The dogs knew him too. We declined his offer for tea (chai) because we were absolutely knackered and it was about to rain. Thankfully the rain did not last long and by morning we had another beautiful day. Not too hot, not too cold. A Goldilocks day.

Spring Time in Baku

Here are the latest shot of Azerbajubu. I've managed to get out and about a few times in the last few months and here are a sampling of the pictures. Pictured are Sarah and Jo Jo the intrepid hikers. Sarah is doing her Jesus imitation to the left. Well it is Easter.

We were out just yesterday and ran into about 4 inches of snow! That was great because if it would have been rain, the mud would have been relentless. All is just fine here but am very much looking forward to June and my ticket home to Alaska. I will have to write another post about the things I will miss about Baku. Hmmm..... The roasted chickens are right up there at the top of the list, Thursday nights runs as well. What I do wonder is why this is underlined ??

Countryside!