After promoting the four books he’s written during the past decade in sunny London and below-freezing New England, The Idiot dropped into summer-like Los Angeles.
The four books written by The Idiot during the past ten years atop a turquoise amphora in a Los Angeles garden.
The Idiot’s books include “The Idiot and the Odyssey” trilogy devoted to his just-completed 20-year walk around the Mediterranean Sea and “The Paris Metro 40th Anniversary Issue: The Book About Paris Yesterday” dedicated to a magazine he was involved with in France in the late 1970s.
(Photo: Luke Stratte-McClure)
The Idiot’s Los Angeles book tour took him from Occidental College across the city to Beverly Hills and the Pacific Ocean.
“The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean,” published in 2008, on the campus of Occidental College.
“The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Magic and Madness on the Mediterranean,” published in 2013, in the window of Louis Vuitton on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
“The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking the Mediterranean,” published last September, on a beach in Santa Monica on the Pacific Ocean.
(Photo: Harry Stein)
“The Paris Metro 40th Anniversary Issue: The Book About Paris Yesterday” in the shadow of an Eiffel Tower Christmas decoration in a Los Angeles neighborhood.
Naturally The Idiot tried to influence public opinion and encourage readers to buy his books as Christmas presents.
The Idiot gives Baby Gaga, his 1.21-year-old granddaughter, guidance about how to write a positive literary review to influence prospective readers of The Idiot’s works.
(Photo: Luke Stratte-McClure)
Baby Gaga, The Idiot’s 1.21-year-old granddaughter, takes a volume of “The Idiot and the Odyssey” to place under the family Christmas tree in Los Angeles.
The Idiot tries to sell copies of “The Idiot and the Odyssey” trilogy and “The Paris Metro 40th Anniversary Issue: The Book About Paris Yesterday” on the campus of Occidental College.
(Photo: Luke Stratte-McClure)
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."