Although no longer seriously Medtrekking since he completed his 20-year circumnavigation of the Mediterranean Sea in 2018, The Idiot frequently takes a freewheeling amble on the Med a few times a year. This spring he was on the seaside and in the interior of Albania for ten days.
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 … →
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 … →
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.
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.
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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