I promised the gods when I was on top of Mount Olympus that I would learn both ancient and modern Greek before I consulted the famous Oracle at Delphi for some tips about where to go next on my walking adventure around the Mediterranean Sea.
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Like many captivated readers of “The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean,” I was inspired by the adventure travel narrative to embark on my own midlife project involving a “sea change” and with it a new career direction.
This personal life-altering experience began when I finished the book and joined author Read more
Spending the afternoon amidst the 17,000 art works in the New York Metropolitan Museum’s comparatively new Hellenistic and Roman galleries to prepare for a meeting tomorrow with curator Sean Hemingway (Ernest’s grandson) and my upcoming MedTrek around The Peloponnese in Greece.
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Read how my serendipitous trek around the Mediterranean Sea, and the publication of “The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean,” has become one of the primary focuses of my life in the current issue of “Fast Thinking” magazine.
Hong Kong, July 22
It’s illegal, and quite ill advised, to exhibit a picture of the exiled Dalai Lama anywhere in China, including the Tibet Autonomous Region (where many lamas in Lhasa have a taboo photograph hidden up their sleeves).
But The Idiot, much to his surprise, was recently allowed by courageous Yellow Read more
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