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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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Where is the Idiot Today?

Encountering a buzzing and stinging hiking hazard while walking near the iconic teepee in the San Gabriel Mountains above Los Angeles. Read more

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Carousing, communing and contemplating with myriad Buddhas at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. Read more

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Priceless Path, Shabby Shoes, Ruined Ruins

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking | 32 Comments

What’s so special about this sweet and smooth seaside trail cut out of rock?

Vasque soles after 1,000 kilometers. Quecha sole at 0 kilometers.

The former railway track gets The Idiot’s coveted rating as an ideal MedTrek trail.
Don’t leave Syracuse, Sicily, without MedTrekking, biking, Read more

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Cruising Unarrested Into Arresting Syracuse

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking | 10 Comments

The old (8th Century BC), the less old and the new coexist on Ortygia Island in Syracuse.

I’m amazed that I don’t get arrested more often during my MedTrek around Sicily in search of Odysseus and other legends of Greek mythology. I had to break/sneak into two places Read more

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MedTrekking to Syracuse, Augusta and Florida?

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking | 9 Comments

I had to go to Noto to photograph another pigeon in flight.

No, The Idiot is not back in the USA.

But I’ll be hiking through these towns as I continue my walking adventure along Sicily’s eastern coast to Messina.

After a glorious weekend walkabout in Gozo and a queasy Read more

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Has Anyone Here Slept With A Beautiful And Immortal Nymph Named Calypso?

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking | 17 Comments

NOT the view from the “Calypso Cave” that tourists visit in Gozo.

Malta is, compared to Sicily, a small island in the Mediterranean Sea. And everyone on Malta considers nearby Gozo a really small island. So I didn’t think that it would be too difficult to find Read more

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Want To Travel Locally? Walk!

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Greece, Idiotic Musings, Mediterranean Pix | 12 Comments

One reason that I’ve walked over 6,700 kilometers around the Mediterranean Sea is to connect with local communities and be exposed to new people, places, cultures, cuisine, ideas and socio-political idiosyncrasies.

Though I hope to circumnavigate the entire sea within twenty years, which is the amount of time it took Odysseus to Read more

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