….when I head there later today to “MedTrek” on the Great Wall, take the high-altitude train to Lhasa and climb around Tibet? Because the following email, forwarded to me by a traveling companion, encouraged me to buy a bag of plastic chopsticks at the local Dollar Tree store. I’ll bet Odysseus would
“All men have need of the gods,” Homer wrote in “The Odyssey,” the world’s first travel narrative that inspired my humble walking adventure around the Mediterranean Sea. One delightful aspect of MedTrekking over 7,000 kilometers is my frequent meetings with gods, goddesses, sea nymphs, warriors, villains, heroes, sorceresses and other supernatural, semi-supernatural
My son Luke, one of many MedTrekkers featured in my book “The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean,” has hiked more kilometers around the Mediterranean Sea with me than anyone else. His day job as an actor in Hollywood
….a reader of Follow the Idiot. Here, as I sit around the pool at the Magic Castle Hotel in Hollywood, CA, are some shots of Sicilian women taken during my recent MedTrek outing on the island. [caption id=”attachment_947″ align=”alignright”
Want an “easy” volcano to climb instead of grappling with Mount Etna or MedTrekking up Stromboli? The bowl-shaped Crater della Fossa on Sicily’s Aeolian Island of Vulcano is the place to go. But you may get a bit muddy by the time it’s all over. [caption id=”attachment_928″ align=”alignright” width=”600″ caption=”Vulcano’s Crater della
As a seasoned MedTrekker who’s hiked over 7,000 kilometers around the Mediterranean Sea, I’m somewhat surprised that I made two major concessions to climb swiftly-and-legally to the top of Stromboli yesterday. For the first time ever on my MedTrek, I arranged to take
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