Want to Follow The Idiot on an Odyssean New York stroll on Saturday, April 13?
Join an informal group of amicable urban ManTrekkers on a somewhat stressless 32-mile meditative march around Manhattan. Meet outside the iconic Bowling Green subway station in lower Manhattan at sunrise (6:22 am) for a slow takeoff.
If you’re late, head to the Hudson River, turn right and run to catch up
A state-of-the-art eBook version of “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean” will be published on Valentine’s Day 2013 and include nearly 200 photographs, interactive maps and a variety of hyperlinks. Readers will be able to hear The Sirens serenading The Idiot on the Amalfi Coast, listen to a rendition of “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” at the top of Mount Olympus, and visually monitor The Idiot’s
“The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean” is again being used as a school textbook. Veteran teacher Jim Owens is including it as part of the curriculum in his humanities/critical thinking class for 200 seniors at Gainesville High School in Florida. Students read “The Idiot,” and were entertained by the author, in November 2011 and current classes are scheduled to meet him later this month. They will also discuss
Geneva, Switzerland – Tuesday, October 9 – 6:30-8:00 p.m. The Idiot will be speaking about, and reading from, “The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean” and its sequel, “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” which will be published on Valentine’s Day 2013, at: OffTheShelf English
Ah, the glorious French Riviera and warmly inviting Mediterranean Sea in nearly autumnal September. Hard to beat. Vibrant Nice cafes keep the rue de France lively beyond midnight and today I take a group from San Diego on a Blue Walk (www.thebluewalk.com) around the Cap d’Antibes. We’ll go past the Nomade sculpture
Believe it or not, I have now MedTrekked 8,802 kilometers (5,470 miles) around the Mediterranean Sea and will follow in the footsteps of Alexander the Great from Izmir, Turkey, to Alexandria, Egypt, after I complete my next book: “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean”
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