Here is a collection of short stories and essays documenting events and projects of the author over the past 40 years of business and travels in the U.S., Europe, North Africa, South and Central America, and Asia. The stories take the reader behind the scenes with a Moroccan truck driver and a Vietnamese flower farmer with side glances at the cultures and peoples around them. Banned in Viet Nam The Information Department of Ho Chi Minh City has banned this book. (Not for sale for shipping to Viet Nam.)