Discussing the female aging process with his 96-year-old mother and partner Liz Chapin during a healthy lunch in Redding, CA.
The Idiot, who is taking an online Stanford course called “The Physiology of Aging,” couldn’t tell his mother anything about aging that she hadn’t already experienced. And, yes, she ate all her yams and watermelon, two Idiot-ic mainstays of a long life.
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."