What did The Idiot do on the 244th anniversary of independence in the United States?
Forget parades, family picnics, barbecues, baseball games and other usual holiday frivolity. The Idiot, ever mindful of the ravages of the poetically named coronavirus pandemic, kept it simple, sane and serene in northern California.
The Idiot tranquilly meditated at dawn on his suspended deck in Redding, California.
The Idiot could see an American flag flying across the Sacramento River from his home in Redding, CA.
The Idiot ran into challenging terrain after walking 17,760 steps on his daily pandemic hike.
The Idiot dropped into a friend’s during his 10-mile Independence Day walk to chat about everything except the state of the nation.
The Idiot called his binational daughter (left), who is 75 percent American, in Antibes, France.
The Idiot called Baby Gogo, his two-month-old multinational grandson who is about 37.5 percent American (add British, French and Scottish influences), in Los Angeles.
The Idiot, wearing a T with Andy Warhol’s depiction of Queen Elizabeth, had lunch with a masked friend (Kevin Devine) in front of an American flag fountain.
The Idiot insured that his 100.7-year-old mother, who is 100% American, had an appropriate bouquet of flowers on Independence Day.
The Idiot and his 100,7-year-old mother critiqued the film version of “Hamilton.”
The Idiot thoroughly enjoyed the rise of the full moon at 9:44 p.m. before the 10 p.m. fireworks.
The Idiot meditatively observed the Independence Day fireworks from his suspended deck in Redding, CA.
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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."