Joe McGarity, aka The Fantom Penguin blogger, caught up with Joel Stratte-McClure, aka The Idiot MedTrekker/author, in Redding, California, where “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean” is being written.
My 2011 swim across the Hellespont, which enabled me to stroke from Europe to Asia and continue my long-distance walk around the Mediterranean Sea beyond Troy in Turkey, has been heralded in a book that will be published Tuesday (April 3, 2012). Former ABC News correspondent and long-time swimmer Lynn Sherr uses
Marilyn Hagerty — the 85-year-old Internet-viral food critic and columnist from North Dakota who became instantly famous (Google her) this month following her recent review of The Olive Garden in Grand Forks — was among the first US critics to write about “The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean.” Below is
A profile of The Idiot by Marc Beauchamp in the “Redding (CA) Record Searchlight” newspaper (February 4, 2012) illustrates that he continues to winter away in Northern California writing “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean” @ http://www.redding.com/news/2012/feb/04/marc-beauchamp-reddings-odysseus-finds-his-way/ Marc Beauchamp: Redding’s ‘Odysseus’ finds his way home In
Three copies of “The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean” have been donated to The People’s Library at the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City. The books were given to the “read and return” library on Halloween and available when protesters returned to Zuccoti Park after participating
The Idiot returned to Turkey in September to swim the Hellespont (http://goo.gl/r4SiF) and MedTrek through Gallipoli to Troy (http://goo.gl/SJIOd), up Mount Ida (http://goo.gl/EqBRu) and through Dikili (http://goo.gl/rBeiX) and Candarli (http://goo.gl/sOJrE) to Homeros near Izmir (http://goo.gl/DsgkL) where he will conclude his next book “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and
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