The Idiot’s MedTrek in Egypt this month has been postponed until November. But that didn’t stop him from discovering mummies, sculptures, churches, museums and antiquities in California that evoke Egyptian and European culture, life and artifacts.
First he had to find Egypt and other treasures somewhere in the Golden State.
The Idiot found Egypt, and evocations of Egypt, closer to San Francisco than Los Angeles.
He knew everything was on the right track when he stumbled upon an Egyptian mummy sarcophagus.
But he was stunned when he discovered an ornate mummy mask.
Much to his amazement, he also found Europe not far away.
Rome was closer to Egypt than you might think.
Egypt one moment, Rome the next, then photographs taken by classicists in Greece.
The Idiot immediately felt at home amid the churches, buildings, courtyards and towers.
The Idiot enters an expansive courtyard with an impressive church.
The memorial church’s stained glass windows were reminiscent of eglises in France.
The Idiot, as he does so often in Greece and Turkey, enjoyed strolling alone among the contemporary ruins.
And all the time travel got him thinking about whether he’d ever have to get on an airplane again.
Of course, he couldn’t resist a selfie or two.
The Idiot took an imitative selfie with one of Auguste Rodin’s Burghers of Calais.
And he didn’t leave Egypt, the mummies, Rome, the church, the sculptures, the museums and ancient buildings without ensuring that copies of his books — The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean and The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Magic and Madness on the Mediterranean — were still on the shelves and selling rapidly at the Stanford University Bookstore.
The Idiot’s books at the Stanford University Bookstore amid the ruins of Egypt and Europe.
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