Baby Gaga, The Idiot’s 2.88-year-old granddaughter, told her parents that she plans to get her own apartment in Hollywood when she turns three in September.
The Idiot didn’t flee triple-digit heat in Redding, California, simply to enjoy cooler climes and take delightful midday hikes for two weeks on the Pacific Ocean in Humboldt County.#
It doesn’t take an Idiot to realize the immediate physical, spiritual, mental and emotional benefits of fleeing hellishly hot Redding, California, for the Pacific Ocean coast.
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.
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