Where Did The Idiot Travel Before The Pandemic Confinement?

It’s now been just over a year since The Idiot enjoyed an adventure outside the United States.

The pandemic confinement has resulted in the longest period he’s continuously been on U.S. soil since he was a sophomore in high school 55 years ago.

Here are a few places he gallivanted during the two decades before the pandemic interrupted everyone’s 2020 travel plans.

2002 – Partying in the south of France where he lived for 20 years (1984-2004). (Photo: Sonia Stratte-McClure)

2003 – MedTrekking in Morocco during his 20-year walk around the Mediterranean Sea. (Photo: Luke Stratte-McClure)

2004 – MedTrekking in Italy during his 20-year walk around the Mediterranean Sea.

2005 – Meeting his two children in England.

2006 – Making a fact-finding visit to Cuba.

2007 – Assessing homeless housing in Paris.

2008 – Hiking in South Africa.

2009 – MedTrekking in Italy during his 20-year walk around the Mediterranean Sea.

2009 – Exploring Burma (Myanmar).

2010 – Protesting in Tibet.

2011 – Exploring the Galapagos.

2012 – Turning 64 in London.

2013 – Cleaning up after a MedTrek stint in Turkey during his 20-year walk around the Mediterranean Sea.

2014 – Conducting sociological research in southwestern France.

2015 – Promoting “The Idiot and the Odyssey” travel narratives on television in Cyprus during his 20-year walk around the Mediterranean Sea.

2016 – Starting the MedTrek segment in Egypt during his 20-year walk around the Mediterranean Sea.

2017 – Concluding his 20-year walk around the Mediterranean Sea in Tunisia.

2018 – Presenting “The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking The Mediterranean,” the last book in the trilogy of travel narratives about his meander around the Mediterranean Sea, to Queen Elizabeth in London.

2019 – Hiking to a monastery on the island of Patmos in Greece.

2020 – Taking selfies with whales in Mexico.

 

 

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Posted on March 8, 2021 by Joel in Cyprus, Egypt, England, Featured, Follow The Idiot, France, Greece, Idiotic Musings, Italy, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Mexico, Morocco, PR, Travel, Tunisia, Turkey

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."

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