“All men have need of the gods,” Homer wrote in “The Odyssey,” the world’s first travel narrative that inspired my humble walking adventure around the Mediterranean Sea.
One delightful aspect of MedTrekking over 7,000 kilometers is my frequent meetings with gods, goddesses, sea nymphs, warriors, villains, heroes, sorceresses and other supernatural, semi-supernatural Read more
Luke Stratte-McClure with his father The Idiot in Morocco.
My son Luke, one of many MedTrekkers featured in my book “The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean,” has hiked more kilometers around the Mediterranean Sea with me than anyone else.
His day job as an actor in Hollywood Read more
Want an “easy” volcano to climb instead of grappling with Mount Etna or MedTrekking up Stromboli?
The bowl-shaped Crater della Fossa on Sicily’s Aeolian Island of Vulcano is the place to go. But you may get a bit muddy by the time it’s all over.
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The Mediterranean Sea’s most explosive volcano.
For the first time ever on my MedTrek, I arranged to take Read more
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