Taking a meditative breath and going for a walk to get a break from either isolating or spending hours with his 100-year-old mother.
Meditating and breathing at dawn as a band of morning fog traces the course of the Sacramento River in Redding, California.
Stopping at a stream, and wondering if the water is aware that last year’s snow storm bent the trees or that we’re in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, during an eight-mile walk in Redding, California.
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."