Here are some of the men, women and camels that you’ll meet in eastern Egypt when you scan the QR codes in The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking the Mediterranean. The final volume of the trilogy about the Idiot’s twenty-year walk around the Mediterranean Sea was published last month and is available on amazon.

This Egyptian near Port Said is also walking around the Mediterranean Sea.

The Idiot ran into souvenirs of Egyptian King Ramses II, who reigned from 1279–1213 BC, in Abu Simbel near the Sudan border.
(Photo: Kate Gale)

The Idiot (top left) joined a group of mainly English tourists on the dance floor of a boat on the Nile in Luxor.

The Idiot frolicked with a belly dancer in a disco on a boat on the Nile.
(Photo: Kate Gale)

The Idiot met Alexander the Great at the Alexandria Library before following in his footsteps to the Siwa Oasis.

The Idiot met poet Constantine Cavafy at his home in Alexandria.

The Idiot with Mahmoud Elsory Elmasry, Alexandria’s top Uber driver, and former Middle East foreign correspondent Michael Knipe, the editor of the second and third volumes of The Idiot and the Odyssey trilogy.

The Idiot and a construction worker on a Russian nuclear plant on the Mediterranean Sea.

The Idiot and Mirna Ghorab, the head of PR at the Al Alamein Hotel in Marassi Village near Sidi Abd El-Rahman.
(Photo: Michael Knipe)

The Idiot with a foreign spy in Luxor.

An Idiot-loving camel at an army barracks on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt.
Next week: You’ll meet The Idiot’s armed escort and other Egyptians as he continues his walk to the Libya border.
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