“Where did you celebrate other 000 kilometerstones?” a Follow The Idiot fan inquired when I revealed last month that I’d reached the 10,000th kilometer on my walk around the Mediterranean Sea in Gazipaşa, Turkey.
Here’s the list of where The Idiot hit the 1,000-10,000 kilometer points on his MedTrek:
1,000 Kilometers – Santa Margarita, Spain
“At the 1000-kilometer MedTrek mark, a potentially momentous milestone, I find myself in a German bakery near a fake Mississippi riverboat parked on a canal in Santa Margarita. And we walked 1,000-kilometers for this, my toes ask in unison?” – Excerpted from “The Idiot and The Odyssey: Walking The Mediterranean.”
2,000 Kilometers – Calapiteres, Spain
“When we arrive at the beach in Calapiteres, I hit the 2,000 kilometer mark and anoint my lips, Cassie’s lips and Leonardo’s lips with seawater. A few days later Cassie gives me a tiny, varnished rock taken from the beach that says, in red nail polish, ‘K 2000’.- Excerpted from “The Idiot and The Odyssey: Walking The Mediterranean.”
It was a 2,000 kilometer MedTrek from Antibes, France, to Calapiteres, Spain.
3,000 Kilometers – Mirador de Perdicaris, Morocco
“When I hear the loud blare of a cruise ship’s horn heralding its entry from the ocean into the Strait of Gibraltar, I realize that it’s time for a serious commemoration. I’ve just reached the 3000-K mark of the MedTrek. Cassie, who was with me at the 2000-K kilometerstone, refers to this as KKK.” – Excerpted from “The Idiot and The Odyssey: Walking The Mediterranean.”
4,000 Kilometers – Viareggio, Italy
“The town’s landmark gigantic clock is the 4000-kilometer mark on my MedTrek. To celebrate, I have a seafood salad at the Gran Caffé Margherita dominated by a Baroque cupola.” – Excerpted from “The Idiot and The Odyssey: Walking The Mediterranean.”
5,000 Kilometers – Point Licosa, Italy
“I hike through a number of agreeable seaside and hillside villages; make one very steep climb up a nearly vertical cliff; and almost forget to observe the 5,000-K mark between Point Licosa and Ogliastro Marina because I’m counting olives, figs, and grapes.” – Excerpted from “The Idiot and The Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean.”
A sweet beach near the 5,000 kilometerstone on my MedTrek.
6,000 Kilometers – Ithaca, Greece
“I walk along a long, sandy beach and find myself in an unblemished cove where I celebrate the 6,000-kilometer mark on my MedTrek with a leisurely skinny dip in the clear and cleansing water before laying down on the warm pebbles to dry.” – Excerpted from “The Idiot and The Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean.”
My SPOT gps records the exact spot on Ithaca where I reached the 6,000 kilometer mark.
7,000 Kilometers – Delphi, Greece
“My feet, after walking more than 7,000 kilometers around the Mediterranean Sea, look exactly like the Charioteer’s.” – Excerpted from “The Idiot and The Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean.”
My feet after MedTrekking more than 7,000 kilometers.
8,000 Kilometers – Mátala, Greece
“I find that the Mátala caves and the town’s beaches (the “Red Beach,” just FYI, is for nudists only), a hippie allure forty years ago, are now major tourist draws with the usual pros and cons associated with such development.” – Excerpted from “The Idiot and The Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean.”
I found the Mátala caves at the 8,000 kilometerstone.
9,000 Kilometers – Ürkmez, Turkey
I blog that The Idiot is “dancing in the surf after reaching 9,000 kilometers (5,592 miles) on the MedTrek.”
10,000 Kilometers – Gazipaşa, Turke
I blog that “The Idiot’s walk around the Mediterranean Sea has always been a one-step-at-a-time project. The modus operandi continues to be ‘the goal is the path, the path is the goal’ in an effort to maintain the MedTrek mission as a mindful and meditative pursuit.
But sometimes it’s worth acknowledging a milestone. On June 5th (2014) The Idiot reached the 10,000-kilometer (6,214 miles) mark on Nanu Beach near the village of Gazipaşa in southern Turkey”@ https://www.google.com/maps/place/36°16’10.5%22N+32°16’49.7%22E/@36.26959,32.28047,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en
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