Monthly Archives: August 2011

Monthly Archives: August 2011

Hellespont Milestone

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Where is the idiot | 38 Comments

It was the sorceress Circe (she’s the one that turned Odysseus’s crew into swine) who told The Idiot to swim across the Hellespont, the Turkish strait also known as the Dardanelles that separates Europe from Asia. This was the twelfth and final task that she gave him 4,061 MedTrekking kilometers ago

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SwimTrekking the Hellespont

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Greece, Idiotic Musings, MedTrekking, Where is the idiot | 22 Comments

The Idiot has been training for his August 30 swim across the Hellespont, the Turkish strait that separates Europe from Asia, for three months. His rigorous workout regimen has included open water swims in Greece, Turkey, France, Ecuador’s Galpagos Islands and lakes and rivers in Northern California. A successful 4.5-kilometer aquatic crossing

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