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Joel | Follow the Idiot - Part 462

Preparing For The Peloponnese

Posted on by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Greece, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Where is the idiot | 4 Comments

Spending the afternoon amidst the 17,000 art works in the New York Metropolitan Museum’s comparatively new Hellenistic and Roman galleries to prepare for a meeting tomorrow with curator Sean Hemingway (Ernest’s grandson) and my upcoming MedTrek around The Peloponnese in Greece. You can Follow The Idiot there beginning with my seance with

How Did My MedTrek Become A Full-Time Job?

Posted on by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking | 2 Comments

Read how my serendipitous trek around the Mediterranean Sea, and the publication of “The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean,” has become one of the primary focuses of my life in the current issue of “Fast Thinking” magazine.

Dalai Lama Spotted In Central China

Posted on by Joel in An Odyssey in China & Tibet, Follow The Idiot, Idiotic Musings | 9 Comments

Hong Kong, July 22 It’s illegal, and quite ill advised, to exhibit a picture of the exiled Dalai Lama anywhere in China, including the Tibet Autonomous Region (where many lamas in Lhasa have a taboo photograph hidden up their sleeves). But The Idiot, much to his surprise, was recently allowed by courageous Yellow

The Idiot Sizzles In Shanghai

Posted on by Joel in An Odyssey in China & Tibet, Follow The Idiot, Idiotic Musings | 24 Comments

The Idiot appeared at the sprawling

Comprehending Contemporary China

Posted on by Joel in An Odyssey in China & Tibet, Follow The Idiot, Idiotic Musings | 29 Comments

It would take at least one million pictures, and/or one billion words, to commence cataloguing the characteristics, changes and concerns that encapsulate bygone and contemporary China. But The Idiot is ready to take on the task. Here are the first ten of his one million photographs following a riveting odyssey from Beijing to

Slices Of Lhasa Street Life

Posted on by Joel in An Odyssey in China & Tibet, Follow The Idiot, Idiotic Musings | 8 Comments

It’s impossible to ignore – and illegal to photograph — the omnipresent Chinese military troops in riot gear on the rooftops and