Returning to Redding, California, where smoke from forest fires completely obscures the 6:40 a.m. sunrise.
The summer sunrise view from The Idiot’s deck on a hill above downtown Redding, CA, usually features a blazing sun coming up over Mount Lassen to the east.
That’s not the case on the first day (September 4) that The Idiot returned to California after two weeks on the east coast and stepped into 108 °F heat and a city surrounded by serious forest fires burning in almost every direction.
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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