Relishing a cup of coffee after fasting and undergoing a surgical procedure unrelated to his AHT (Abnormally High Testosterone) in Redding, California.
The Idiot, still under the intoxicating influence of general anesthesia, describes the heavenly taste of hospital coffee to a nurse in the recovery room. (Photo: Lesle Curfman)
The Idiot tells a young nurse about how a cup of hospital coffee is comparable to the acid, alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, mushrooms and other drugs he indulged in the 1960s when he was her age. She brought him another cup of coffee. (Photo: Lesle Curfman)
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."