The Idiot spent Halloween with his favorite witch in Salem, MA, to get her opinion about how he should approach his MedTrek in Egypt later this week.

Here are her seven key suggestions:

1. “Don’t walk, as you’re planning, from Gaza across the ISIS-frequented Sinai Peninsula to Port Said or….

…you might wind up looking like this.”

2. “Spend the time before you fly to Cairo on November 3 walking and meditating at Egypt Beach near your oceanside base camp in Scituate, MA, to…

….get in the right frame of mind.”

3. “Get rid of your oceanside base camp near Egypt Beach and put your stuff in storage just in case…

…you’re detained and don’t make it back in December.”

4. Meet with Eric Almquist, the author of “The (30) Elements Of Value,” at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, MA, to determine whether your readers really care that you’re….

…walking in the footsteps of Alexander the Great in Egypt.”
“The 30 essential values aren’t too useful if you’re dead,” posited Eric Almquist.

5. “Don’t walk the wrong way when you reach the lighthouse in…

…Alexandria or you’ll never make it to Libya.”

6. “Plan for all possible outcomes by buying a spot for a memorial bench in Scituate Harbor…

…as a gift to the town.”

7. “Don’t believe everything you hear from a witch you met twenty years ago on the street in Salem when your daughter was gong to school here.”

“Witch way?” The idiot asked his favorite sorceress in Salem, MA.
(Photo: Liz Chapin)

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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."