Invited to join the O-Team and welcome arriving freshman students to Occidental College with an Idiot-ic pep talk.
The Idiot joined the O-Team and, among many other things, told arriving freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles that “a journey of 1,000 days begins with the first step — the path is the goal, the goal is the path.”
“This was the simple philosophy, basically stolen from Lao Tsu, that enabled me to gleefully spend twenty years walking around the Mediterranean Sea,” said The Idiot. “Be good in the beginning, good in the middle and good in the end.”
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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