LONDON -- It was exhausting. Mentally, physically, even spiritually. And as such, the eight-day pilgrimage my son Marko and I just completed to my ancestral home in Serbia — with a day here in England in either direction — felt like anything but a vacation.
Heck, I’ll probably be that much more out of breath by the time I get to the press box to cover tonight’s Steelers preseason game.
At the same time, my goodness, was this ever needed. For both of us.
For Marko, it was a first real chance to connect, face to face, ear to ear, with his family’s origins and, best of all, with so much of the family itself.