Continuing to stroll solo and practice social distancing while seeing the roses, smelling the lavender and not picking the poppies in Northern California.
Roses in Redding, California, were blooming well before spring due to the clement winter weather.
Bees love lavender almost as much as The Idiot, who became a fan and cultivator of the scented plant when he was living in the south of France for over two decades.
Tiptoeing through a field of California golden poppies, the state flower, during a solo spring stroll in Redding, California.
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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