Recalling that on Good Friday in 1956 he spent a freezing night on Shasta Lake with four members of his family when their boat ran out of gas.
“Why we didn’t use our cell phones to call for help?” the Idiot asked his 97-year-old mother today when they discussed the night they spent on Shasta Lake sixty-one years ago. “After all, you were pregnant and we didn’t have any food or blankets.”
Instead of making the call, his father hiked out and help arrived early the next morning.
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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