“The northern Sinai Peninsula is a war zone and tensions are very high,” a colonel in the Egyptian Army told The Idiot when he discussed resuming his walk around the Mediterranean Sea at Rafah on the Egyptian side of Gaza. “Don’t risk it — not that we’d give you the necessary permission to be there — while we’re fighting Daesh (ISIS) and have numerous other security concerns in Sinai.” Read more
The Idiot took his last hikes on the Sacramento River Trail and celebrated his mother’s 97th birthday in Redding, CA, before flying to the east coast to promote his latest book (The Paris Metro 40th Anniversary Issue: The Book About Paris Yesterday) and return to the MedTrek in Egypt on November 5. Read more
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