Monthly Archives: June 2011

Monthly Archives: June 2011

An Idiotic Summit Meeting

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The Idiot took time off between his recent 800-kilometer MedTrek outing in Crete and his planned August 30 swim across the Bosporus Strait to summit majestic Mount Shasta in northern California and obtain material for the “Homeward Bound” and “Getting SideTrekked” chapters of “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness

The Riviera to the Bosporus

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The Idiot, who was back on the French Riviera to “guest guide” The Blue Walk (www.thebluewalk.com) mini-MedTrek hikes from Menton to Theoule-sur-Mer from June 5-12, has posted 115 “French Riviera par iPhone” photos @ http://on.fb.me/kajCeg. And you can catch a video produced by The Blue Walk @ http://bit.ly/qZ0fIJ. With that arduous

Kos-ting Towards Cannes

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Why would The Idiot flee Ephesus in Turkey (http://bit.ly/mjxYaQ), which merits its acclaim as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, for the Greek island of Kos (http://bit.ly/mjKK7c)? After all, he could have spent many more hours analyzing the plumbing connecting the forty-nine side-by-side latrines (FYI #49 is not the