Taking away his 97-year-old mother’s car keys after she orders a second margarita and a second split of California champagne during dinner.
The Idiot’s mother, who has been driving since the early 1930s, insists that she hasn’t “drunk and driven since I turned 97 last October.”
She willingly accepts the offer from a designated driver to get her home from the Riverview Golf and Country Club in Redding, CA, where she dines with The Idiot and other socialites at least once a week.
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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