Vlad Tenev

But my grandfather, I remember when he was still alive, he'd tell me the stories like, I think this empire is going to collapse, being the Soviet Union and all the satellite states.

So he kind of pushed my dad to strongly consider coming to America.

And then an opportunity came up.

So right after

the Iron Curtain lifted and people from outside Bulgaria were allowed to come in to the country, this group of folks from the University of Delaware came to visit.

And my dad was a professor at the time at the Economic University of Varna.

Varna's like the summer capital, they call it in Bulgaria.

It's on the beach, so it's kind of nice.

The biggest industry is tourism.

He studied tourism.

He was a professor of tourism?

He was a professor of tourism.

Is there such a thing?

I mean, it was the biggest booming sector.

Yeah, he was a professor of tourism and he had a business on the side, which was essentially a tourism business, so he was an entrepreneur too.

where they would basically take the French tourists.

There was an influx of people from France that were visiting Bulgaria and they had all these buses and they would take them around the country.

Which was funny because I went with my wife last time I was in Bulgaria was 2016 and my parents came with us.

My dad was like, I remember when I would take the tourists and I would take them around and he took us through all these back alleys in some of the cities.

I think so, yeah.