Admitting that, because he can’t bend over, he wears slip-on slide sandals to take short walks while recuperating from lumbar laminotomy surgery.
The Idiot wears sturdy low-cut hiking shoes or strapped walking sandals when MedTrekking. But to recover from spinal surgery by taking three 10-minute walks a day on flat terrain, slide sandals solve the problem of being unable to bend over to tie shoes or attach straps. Thanks to his daughter Sonia for the bright idea.
(Photo: Luke Stratte-McClure)
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."
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