The Idiot kicks off a section of the 600-kilometer GR1 hiking path around Paris in Malesherbes on a sunny day in April with a friend he’s known since 1972.

The Idiot tackles a section of the 600-kilometer GR1 hiking path around Paris alone in the Fontainbleau forest on a cloudy and wet day in May.

The Idiot is enthused by a sunlit trail marker on the GR1 in Le Vaudoué as he heads towards Fontainbleau.

It’s an appropriately somber day when The Idiot reaches a hilltop monument to the French Resistance at the top of a hill near Noisy-sur-École.

The Idiot picnics near a field of blooming rapeseed on a sunny spring day.

The Idiot is forced indoors to eat a vegetarian pizza and a coconut flan on a rainy day in Macherin.

The Idiot ends a rainy day hike at the erstwhile home of Theodore Rousseau in Barbizon.

The Idiot enjoys a sunny day walk in Paris.

The Idiot enjoys a chilly rainy day walk in Paris.

The Idiot enjoys a windy day walk in Paris.

The Idiot enjoys a peopleless day walk in Paris.

The Idiot enjoys a cloudy day walk in Paris.

The Idiot “enjoys” a warm day walk in Paris.

The Idiot enjoys a take-friends-on-a-tour day walk in Paris.

The Idiot enjoys an in-Seine day walk in Paris.

The Idiot enjoys a walk with a Buddhist monk from Malaysia on another day of impermanence in Paris.