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Joel | Follow the Idiot - Part 49

Is It Time To Revisit The Idiot’s Gallipoli Walkabout In Turkey For A Dose Of Humility?

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The Idiot was frequently humbled during his 12,667-kilometer (7,871-mile) walk around the Mediterranean Sea. It didn’t take much – a fall off a cliff in Morocco, a robbery by Gypsies in Italy, an encounter with Zeus in Greece, a year with Circe anywhere, a passport lost somewhere in the sea – to provide a jolt of powerlessness during his adventurous MedTrek.

Happy Trails

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Enjoying a happy solo walk at sunrise on the empty-of-people (I saw a coyote and deer) Buenaventura Trail in Redding, California.

Vintage Graveyard

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Stumbling onto an extensive graveyard of decaying vintage cars and appliances dating from the 1930s above the Sacramento River in Mount Shasta, California.

Homeless Help

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Manning a booth at LIFT Tehama, which welcomed the homeless population and their pets to a day of free health, legal, medical, personal and social services in Red Bluff, California.

Centenarian Dinner

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Watching his gluten-free 100-year-old mother nonchalantly down a dinner that includes two glasses of champagne, a salad, a filet mignon and a twice baked potato.

Endless Summer #2

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Forget heavy autumn comfort food. Everyone in Redding, California, is still eating simple salads due to a seemingly endless summer and unseasonably warm temperatures.