The wily and wise gray-eyed goddess Athena, who appeared in Troy in the guise of a tour guide and the incarnation of the Trojan warrior Hector (http://goo.gl/wk5ol), doesn’t want The Idiot to start writing “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean.” Although the spear-carrying goddess knew
The Idiot said goodbye to one gigantic Trojan horse — the one used in the film “Troy” with Brad Pitt that was shot in Malta and Mexico — on the beachfront promenade in Canakkale, Turkey. Then he MedTrekked 32-kilometers along the mirror-smooth
It was the sorceress Circe (she’s the one that turned Odysseus’s crew into swine) who told The Idiot to swim across the Hellespont, the Turkish strait also known as the Dardanelles that separates Europe from Asia. This was the twelfth and final task that she gave him 4,061 MedTrekking kilometers ago
The Idiot has been training for his August 30 swim across the Hellespont, the Turkish strait that separates Europe from Asia, for three months. His rigorous workout regimen has included open water swims in Greece, Turkey, France, Ecuador’s Galpagos Islands and lakes and rivers in Northern California. A successful 4.5-kilometer aquatic crossing
The Idiot took time off between his recent 800-kilometer MedTrek outing in Crete and his planned August 30 swim across the Bosporus Strait to summit majestic Mount Shasta in northern California and obtain material for the “Homeward Bound” and “Getting SideTrekked” chapters of “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness
The Idiot, who was back on the French Riviera to “guest guide” The Blue Walk (www.thebluewalk.com) mini-MedTrek hikes from Menton to Theoule-sur-Mer from June 5-12, has posted 115 “French Riviera par iPhone” photos @ http://on.fb.me/kajCeg. And you can catch a video produced by The Blue Walk @ http://bit.ly/qZ0fIJ. With that arduous
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