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
Why would The Idiot flee Ephesus in Turkey (http://bit.ly/mjxYaQ), which merits its acclaim as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, for the Greek island of Kos (http://bit.ly/mjKK7c)? After all, he could have spent many more hours analyzing the plumbing connecting the forty-nine side-by-side latrines (FYI #49 is not the
The Idiot isn’t completely stupid. He finally took a short break from his arduous and agonizing 8,403-kilometer MedTrek to leisurely and luxuriously sail on (instead of walk around) the Mediterranean Sea near the Greek island of Kos and Turkey’s Gulf of Gokova. The Idiot was a grateful guest on a 38-foot Sunsail catamaran
Time travel is easy for a MedTrekker. The Idiot left behind Crete’s intriguing world of Zeus’ caves, Minoan culture, gorge-ous countryside, an Academy Award winner and a hip archeologist by taking a ferry to Rhodes, the largest island in the Dodecanese archipelago in the eastern Aegean Sea. He was instantaneously transplanted to the
The Idiot was particularly careful, while MedTrekking through the notorious Gorge of Death near Zakros in eastern Crete, to conscientiously check out every cave, cranny, crevice and shadow. This was not because he had suddenly developed an interest in bats, bones and/or dead body parts (the gorge got its name because the
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