Recalling that his friend Elliott Thompson, who just passed away 87 days before his 104th birthday, “hiked” a mile with The Idiot last August.
Elliott Thompson, 103, walked a mile with The Idiot in his Fairfax, VA, neighborhood in August 2015 with the assistance of a walker he called “Ruby.”
Elliott Thompson walked one hundred steps (his age at the time) when he saw The Idiot off at 7 am on a 50-kilometer march around Manhattan in April 2013.
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."
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