Hosting the first Coffee Break Literary Social Salon of the new year on a gloriously sunny day at his base camp in Redding, California.
The Idiot’s legendary Coffee Break Literary Social Salon, an established institution that has been frequently compared to literary salons during the Age of Enlightenment in early 18 century France, is back on the calendar in 2018.
(Photo: Marc Beauchamp)
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."