The Idiot just spent a week with his daughter Sonia at her home in Antibes, the city in the south of France where he launched his 20-year walk around the Mediterranean Sea in 1998.
The Idiot returned to the Mediterranean Sea for the first time since the pandemic began after France opened its borders to casual American visitors on June 9. The author of The Idiot and the Odyssey trilogy of travel narratives is reassured that, though a number of pandemic-related problems could obviously arise, the Mediterranean Sea will survive.
The Idiot, who is returning to Antibes on the French Riviera for the first time since the pandemic hit, will repeat the first steps he took when he began his 20-year-walk around the Mediterranean Sea on January 1, 1998. Here’s what his first steps looked like twenty-three years ago — and what they’ll probably look like today.
The Idiot joined other Americans going on the road this month and flew to Los Angeles to quietly celebrate the anticipated end of the pandemic. Just how wild did he get?
The Idiot has hired 15-year old Alexander “Xander” Slater to handle global teen marketing for The Idiot and the Odyssey trilogy of travel narratives. Slater, a high school sophomore in Las Vegas, Nevada, became interested in the position when he first learned about The Idiot’s walk around the Mediterranean Sea six years ago.
Antibes, the French city on the Mediterranean Sea where The Idiot launched his 20-year walk around the Med in 1998, is not only featured in the first chapter in The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean (2008).
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