The Idiot, who is currently promoting his books in Tennessee and Georgia, uses a variety of seductive photographs to inspire young Americans to join him on his walk around the Mediterranean Sea.

Here are some shots included in a slideshow that focuses on his recent 796-kilometer MedTrek around the island country of Cyprus.

“It’s important to realize that the path you’ll be walking affords a variety of different types of terrain,” The Idiot told a crowd at Sewanee: The Univeristy of the South in southern Tennessee. “It’s not just sand and sea.”

A typical bridge to cross during the MedTrek around Cyprus.

“This is actually a stretch on the Mediterranean Sea in Cyprus and not a forest in Central America,” said The Idiot as he narrated a slideshow in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Photo: Michael de Glanville)

“Cyprus is not just sandy beaches,” The Idiot illustrated.

The 13th tee on a a golf course in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Naturally food is a preoccupation with younger MedTrekkers.

“There’s an ice cream cone at the end of every MedTrekking day, a pizza on the table every night and a celebratory meal at the end of the outing,” The Idiot said. “Sometimes we even stop for a light lunch.”

The Idiot enjoys a Rambo Special ice cream when he arrives in Paphos in southwestern Cyprus.

“You can watch pizzas being made every evening,” The Idiot assured one group of students.

MedTrekkers Liz Chapin and Michael Knipe enjoy a luscious lunch in Nicosia/Lefkoşa to celebrate the completion of the MedTrek around Cyprus.

“Sometimes we even stop for a light lunch,” The Idiot told students he met at the Bullpen Rib House in Atlanta, Georgia.

“And don’t worry about keeping in touch with the world,” he told a crowd of young school kids. “There’s wi-fi everywhere in Cyrpus.”

Wi-Fing inside the thick walls of the 16th century Kryenia/Girne Castle in Northern Cyprus. (Photo: Liz Chapin)

Next week: Ecountering history and contemporary politics during the MedTrek around Cyprus.

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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."