Thrilled, during his first-ever echocardiogram at a cardiologist’s, to see his healthy heart take its 2,199,044,164th beat on its 25,451st day on earth.
No one, not even The Idiot, knows how many more times his heart will beat but, just for today, he’s been told that “You have the heart of a much younger man. Not 19, but 30.”
The beat goes on.
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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