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I didn’t decide by myself to head to Crete, Greece’s largest island in the southern Aegean, to MedTrek for two months. First I went to pay tribute to, and get some guidance from, the iconic Oracle at Delphi. Circe Read more

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Do Dead People Smoke?

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking | 3 Comments

Look, I respect sacred places. I don’t like to disturb the deceased. And sometimes I obey signs that say “No Foto/No Film.”

But I couldn’t resist taking a shot of this “No Smoking” sign amid the 8,000 mummified cadavers in Palermo’s Capuchin Catacombs.

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Some Of A Beach

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Idiotic Musings, MedTrekking | 5 Comments

Think MedTrekking the coast of Northern Sicily is an easy walk in the sun on a sandy beach?

Think again.

Here are some shots of the landscape I encountered during my 84-kilometer hike between Cefalu and Palermo during the past two days.

Text and Photos: Joel Stratte-McClure

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Experienced Pothead Needed ASAP In Cefalu

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking | 5 Comments

Cefalu seen from the Temple of Diana on The Rock.

I needed to find a serious pothead during my two-hour visit to the Mandralisca Museum in Cefalu before I climbed the Rock towering over the city to drop in on the 5th century BC Temple of Diana.

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Blithely Reaching the Rock of Cefalu

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking | 6 Comments

The center of Cefalu is on the other side of that mountainous rock.

It took me seven days to walk 226-kilometers from Messina to Greek-created Cefalu and its dominating fortified Rock that includes a well-known Temple of Diana. And what did I find when I had a Read more

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Youthful Romance Blossoms on the Sicilian Seaside

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking | 4 Comments

“Window on the Sea”

This colossal sculpture is called “Window on the Sea” but when I walked by it in Torremuzza Reitano today I thought I’d rename it “Manueliana” in tribute to the love story I’d just heard.

There are five ristorantes/pizzerias/trattorias in San Stefano di Camastra on Sicily’s Read more

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