Isn’t It Fun To Remember The Thrill Of Social Proximity During The Idiot’s MedTrek In Israel?

The Idiot, currently in vigilant pandemic-inspired isolation and diligently practicing social distancing in California, recalled his MedTrek along the Mediterranean Sea in Israel where he was able practice social proximity with people he met between Lebanon and Gaza.

The Idiot met a group of welcoming cyclists at the Lebanon/Israel border.

The Idiot and Michael Knipe, the oldest person to accompany The Idiot on the MedTrek, socialized in Haifa. (Photo: Michal Shor-Knipe)

The Idiot breakfasted on shakshuka with a group of camping Israelis during the Sukkot, or the Feast of the Tabernacles, holiday. (Photo: Michael Knipe)

The Idiot and Michael Knipe, the world’s oldest MedTrekker and the former Jerusalem correspondent for The Times of London, walked on the Mediterranean seaside south of Haifa. (Photo: Sari Amrusi-Yishai)

MedTrekking with lawyer Sari Amrusi-Yishai, the most pregnant woman to ever join the 20-year walk around the Mediterranean, south of Netanya. (Photo: Michael Knipe)

Checking the weather and distances with Sari Amrusi-Yishai at a seaside cafe south of Netanya. (Photo: Michael Knipe)

Conversing with an Israeli soldier south of Jaffa.

MedTrekking with his niece Sara Stratte, who had been studying archeology in Egypt, in southern Israel. (Photo: Michael Knipe)

Heading to a restaurant in Ashkelon with his niece Sara Stratte before MedTrekking towards Gaza. (Photo: Michael Knipe)

Celebrating MedTrekker Michael Knipe’s birthday in Tel Aviv during the MedTrek from Lebanon to Gaza. (Photo: Michal Shor-Knipe)

Catching up on the news in Tel Aviv after completing the MedTrek through Israel to Gaza. (Photo: Michael Knipe)

Taking a break from the MedTrek to chill out in Jerusalem with Michal Shor-Knipe.

For additional details about The Idiot in Israel and other locations on the Mediterranean Sea in the Middle East read The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking the Mediterranean.

 

 

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Posted on March 31, 2020 by Joel in Featured, Follow The Idiot, Idiotic Musings, Israel, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, PR, Style, Travel, Weather

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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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