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Who Does The Idiot Meet On An Art And Literary Walk On The French Riviera?

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Joel in Featured, Follow The Idiot, Food, France, Idiotic Musings, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, PR, Style, Travel, Weather | Leave a comment

The Idiot led a group of Australians on an art and literary walk around Antibes in mid-May and introduced them to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, Victor Hugo, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jules Verne and other writers who have found inspiration on this part of the Mediterranean Sea. The walk followed the path taken by The Idiot when he began his 20-year-MedTrek around the world’s largest inland sea on January 1, 1998. To his delight, not much has changed and there have … →

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Discovering Cairo’s New, And Most Valuable, GEM

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Joel in Egypt, Featured, Follow The Idiot, Idiotic Musings, PR, Syria, Travel | Leave a comment

The Egyptian Tourist Police frequently “insisted” that The Idiot be accompanied by armed guards when he MedTrekked from the Suez Canal to the Libya Border in 2017 to gather information for the third volume of The Idiot and the Odyssey trilogy of travel narratives.But today they let him roam footloose and fancy free throughout Cairo’s newest GEM, aka the Grand Egyptian Museum, which officially opens on July 3 (the original, and much-postponed, opening date was 2012). It was worth the wait … →

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Where Did The Idiot Walk And Swim In 2024?

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Joel in An Odyssey in China & Tibet, Bhutan, England, Featured, Follow The Idiot, Food, France, Greece, Idiotic Musings, Italy, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, PR, South Africa, Style, Travel, USA, Weather | Leave a comment

The Idiot’s most viral “athletic” moment in 2024 might have been a 15-minute pre-Olympics swim in the Seine in Paris on July 4. But he also managed to walk 4.77-million steps with his iPhone in his pocket. Here’s where he did it a stroke and step at a time to prepare for more in 2025.                        

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Why Is The Idiot Offering YOU A Free Trip To The Amazon For Christmas?

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Joel in Cyprus, Egypt, Featured, Follow The Idiot, France, Greece, Idiotic Musings, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Monaco, Morocco, PR, Spain, Style, Travel, USA | Leave a comment

The time has come for YOU to visit the Amazon and expand your travel horizons for Christmas. Just take a look at what you’ll find @ https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B004KA6V5O?_encoding=UTF8&node=2656022011&offset=0&pageSize=12&searchAlias=stripbooks&sort=author-sidecar-rank&page=1&langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader Interested in more about the pleasures and perils of this trip? Listen to a recent interview with The Idiot on NPR’s “Nancy’s Bookshelf” @ https://www.mynspr.org/show/nancys-bookshelf/2024-09-18/nancys-bookshelf-a-short-swim-in-the-seine-river       Continue with The Idiot’s second book in “The Idiot and the Odyssey” trilogy of travel narratives.    

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Taking The Long Hard Road To The Soft Orange Pillow

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Joel in Featured, Follow The Idiot, Food, Idiotic Musings, Malaysia, MedTrekking, PR, Style, Travel | Leave a comment

The Idiot just enjoyed a tranquil and secluded retreat at an expansive  Buddhist monastery near Penang, Malaysia, that had only one monk on the premises. The Vivekevana Solitude Grove is perched on two acres of land and has more than three dozen rooms, ranging from an ordination hall, libraries, a kitchen and dormitories to solitary cells and spacious meditation areas  on five separate levels. But the only access — a precarious, slippery path up-and-down a steep mountain slope through a … →

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Why Is The Idiot Exploring The Buddhistic Beauty Of Bhutan?

Posted on October 22, 2024 by Joel in An Odyssey in China & Tibet, Bhutan, Featured, Follow The Idiot, PR, Style, Travel, Weather | Leave a comment

The Idiot, who went to his first Buddhist monastery in Japan in 1967 and is making his fifth visit to the Himalaya Mountains since 1980 (the last was to Tibet in 2010), is spending eleven exhilarating days hiking throughout Bhutan, the Buddhist kingdom squeezed between China and India. Although tourists must contribute $100 a day to a sustainable development fund to visit the country (it’s charged when you get your visa) and are required to hire a guide to see … →

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