ONE THING Leads to Another

This is a memoir of a young emigrant to the U.S. who applied to an Ivy League college simply on mistaken recognition of the name Dartmouth. The few short years there and the answer to a surprisingly simple question: How much time do you waste every day? affected much else in his life on four continents: adventure journalism cartography urban affairs high-tech consulting teaching ancient cultures filmmaking nature conservation - and a return to his parents' homeland: Romania.Punctuating his accounts are snapshots of events that shaped the post WW-II world. The Cold War. Collapse of empires. Social upheavals. Wars won and lost. Red flags of irreversible climate change. All of which brought his story to the fateful 2020 year.