The Idiot, who has been solo walking 7-14 miles on most days during the pandemic spring and summer, has a few tips about how to approach a hike during the current triple-digit heatwave in Redding, California. (Spoiler alert: He’s heading to the Pacific Ocean for the next two weeks).
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. Frustrated because you can’t travel? Read The Idiot and the Odyssey trilogy of travel narratives about my twenty-year walk around the Mediterranean Sea.
The Idiot returned from a week with his family on the expansive, almost pandemic-free Pacific Ocean in Central California to resume social distancing, mask wearing and taking other sensible steps and precautions to avoid COVID-19.
The Idiot, after spending four months within the Redding (CA) city limits due to the pandemic, spent his 72nd summer solstice with his new grandson, Baby Gogo (born May 3), his 2.75-year-old granddaughter Baby Gaga and their parents Luke and Sam in Morro Bay on the Pacific Ocean just south of Big Sur. Here are some of the things they did on the longest day of 2020.
“The Idiot and the Odyssey” television documentary, which has been postponed due to the pandemic, was to have used the following photos to promote episodes highlighting the most dangerous, exciting and scandalous encounters during the riveting 20-year MedTrek.
This morning The Idiot, who has been walking solo 7-14 miles a day in Northern California since the Ides of March to cope with the pandemic lockdown, wondered where he was MedTrekking a decade ago. Check out these intentionally caption-less photos from May and June 2010 to see if you can guess where he was on his 20-year hike around the Mediterranean Sea.
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