Determining if he really wants to walk 1,600 miles on historic U.S. Route 99 from Canada to Mexico.
The Idiot (left), after spending twenty years walking around the Mediterranean Sea and writing The Idiot and the Odyssey trilogy about the adventure, may walk the length of historic U.S. Route 99, aka the Pacific Highway, with pal Kevin Devine. The 1,600-mile route, which runs from Calexico, California, to Blaine, Washington, was decommissioned in 1972.
(Photo: Kevin Devine)
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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