Leaving New Orleans for Fairhope, Alabama, and points east as he enters the last week of a relaxing roadtrip from Mendocino, California, to Miami, Florida.
Leaving New Orleans as the city prepares for Mardi Gras.
Visiting the locks on the Mississippi River in New Orleans.
Grateful to be alive and road-tripping after visiting the Museum of Death in New Orleans.
Listening to all that jazz in clubs throughout New Orleans.
Visiting Faulkner House Books, where William Faulkner lived when he was writing in New Orleans, on Pirates Alley in the French Quarter.
Dining on fried alligator at Cochon in New Orleans.
Enjoying a Meditation Walk in Audubon Park.
Talking Louisiana fashion with a model and photographer in New Orleans.
Sitting on a park bench in the French Quarter in New Orleans.
Learning all about this spring’s Crawfest at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Checking out statues in Lafayette Square in New Orleans.
Dining at Antoine’s Restaurant in the French Quarter in New Orleans.
Dining on cochon in New Orleans.
Watching his Australian companion pretend to be the curator of the Louvre Museum at an antique dealer’s in New Orleans.
Enjoying architectural contrasts throughout New Orleans.
Rather randomly running into a classmate from Stanford ‘70 at the Gracious Bakery in New Orleans.
Bidding adieu to the trees in New Orleans.
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."