Believe it or not, I have now MedTrekked 8,802 kilometers (5,470 miles) around the Mediterranean Sea and will follow in the footsteps of Alexander the Great from Izmir, Turkey, to Alexandria, Egypt, after I complete my next book: “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean” Read more
Joe McGarity, aka The Fantom Penguin blogger, caught up with Joel Stratte-McClure, aka The Idiot MedTrekker/author, in Redding, California, where “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean” is being written.
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My 2011 swim across the Hellespont, which enabled me to stroke from Europe to Asia and continue my long-distance walk around the Mediterranean Sea beyond Troy in Turkey, has been heralded in a book that will be published Tuesday (April 3, 2012).
Former ABC News correspondent and long-time swimmer Lynn Sherr uses Read more
Marilyn Hagerty — the 85-year-old Internet-viral food critic and columnist from North Dakota who became instantly famous (Google her) this month following her recent review of The Olive Garden in Grand Forks — was among the first US critics to write about “The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean.”
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A profile of The Idiot by Marc Beauchamp in the “Redding (CA) Record Searchlight” newspaper (February 4, 2012) illustrates that he continues to winter away in Northern California writing “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean” @ http://www.redding.com/news/2012/feb/04/marc-beauchamp-reddings-odysseus-finds-his-way/
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