It took me a few days to recover from the goddess Athena’s thunder-bolting bombshell that I couldn’t quote the titillating and tantalizing remarks made to me by Zeus, her father and the king of all gods, until the publication of “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on
Sometimes Athena, the crafty and cunning goddess who helped both Odysseus and The Idiot out of many scrapes during their Mediterranean odysseys, cracks me up. She really does. The other day she firmly instructed The Idiot to scale Turkey’s renowned Mount Ida for a Q&A with Zeus, her father who is
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
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