On the Road Articles

A Visit With My Ex Manhattan skyscrapers are giant bumps of braille with streets for the spaces in-between.  Floor after floor of stories wait to be read. Foreigners come and go in spurts. Their class leaves a fancy gloss over each grimy block.  Anywhere else telling someone to reproduce with them self would be fighting words. Here it […]

Piscos and Guinea Pigs ACCELERATE!  BRAKES SCREECHING!  THUMP (as my nose hits the seat in front of me)!!  Accelerate to the next speed bump, BRAKE, thump and start over again.  The green taxi ride from Peru’s Jorge Chavez airport in Lima, Peru involves my skull smacking into the driver’s headrest.  I’ve never been car sick.  […]

North vs. South Northern Greece is a different experience from the island of Cyprus with its Turkish influences. When I land in Thessaloniki, I still have 2 hours to go before reaching the town of Kastoria.  Mr. Trifon Fotiadis of the Arosis pulse and lentil company meets me at the airport. While I’ve tried his products […]

New World French In mid-December of 2016 I catch a late Air Canada flight up to Quebec City. My 6’ 5” frame barely fits into the airplane but my seat is up front which offers a bit of legroom. Seeing that I’m not totally uncomfortable, the stewardess immediately moves me to the back of the […]

Paris By Way Of Austria Since it’s a long flight across the Atlantic, I often try to combine multiple visits on one trip.  This time on my way to Paris, I stop off in Austria for several days of meetings. The weather when I land in Vienna is cold, dark and rainy.  This city is like […]

My Journey from Gourmet Into Growth Hacking Begins  Fear the coming plague that will cleanse the planet, fear the coming war that will bake the world, fear the coming meteor that will crack the globe.  But know by then hackers have already sold it to the meek. I land late on a Tuesday at L.A.X. […]

The Hierarchy of Cheese Since the dark ages the vast majority of great cheese has traditionally been made in Europe. For countries that started young and poor like the States, our palate was geared towards what we could afford. If it was tough, bland and cheap, we’d boil the crap out of it anyway just […]

The New York City of Italy Once upon a time there was a city called “The Capital of the Miracle.” And it liked the name so much it kept having them. Even though miracles only occur once in a lifetime. Even though the city was only a tiny capital. In its obsession, this bygone village became […]

My father was a wise man in the way that a predator is wise (when weighing its hunger vs. your size).  Damir Drezga (my Dad) played soccer for the Yugoslavian national team in the 1960’s.  He was a strikingly handsome man, already grey by his 20’s.  Damir stood 6’2” tall, and was very quick for […]

 It’s All Greek to Me   Definition of GREEK  Ελληνικά / ɡriːk /   adjective relating to an unihibited, cultural timelessness referring to a proto Indo European mentality that before history changes the Greeks, the Greeks will change history. noun the Americans of the Hellenic world 2,000 years ago. the D.N.A. of modern European culture and […]

Dubai دبي, in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) is a city of the living book—the Koran. It is surrounded by a desert where nothing is alive.

The Red Carpet of Livestock Imagine yourself jetting over to Paris for the biggest gala of the year. No doubt you picture red carpets and movie stars galore.  In my case, we’re talking 4,000 live farm animals, French President François Hollande and a cadre of baby (cow) kissing politicians. Parisians take an immense amount of […]