While many of the pieces are about the places visited over the years, (China, India, England, America, The Caribbean, among others), many are about the interesting people on those trips.

1. MAKING UP TIME

I find a woman's relentless tail-gating unnerving in Brampton, Ontario, c1989.

2. THE BAHAMIAN WAY

The people, the language, the place, as noted in my 1990 visit.

3. ZIPPERHEAD AND HARPY

Characters encountered at the airport in Mississauga on the way to Guyana in 1991.

4. THE TAXI DRIVER

My first night in my 1991 return to Guyana after leaving in 1970, and the man who chauffeured me.

5. A LOVERS TRYST

My last day in Georgetown reveals that few things have changed in 1991, twenty-one years after I left.

6. RIDING THE J TRAIN

Some notes about the startling ads and riders aboard the New York City subway in 1991.

7. ON THE BOARDWALK

My return to Coney Island in Brooklyn in 1991 and an encounter with a homeless man.

8. OLD, HELPLESS AND IN HOSPITAL

Observations about patients in hospital in Brampton, Ontario make for interesting reading. Has anything changed? Published in the Globe And Mail in Toronto in 1992.

9. A FINANCE CONFERENCE

Who said accountants are a boring lot? I find different in a Chicago conference in 1995.

10. STRANGER IN MY HOUSE

A 1996 observation about my mother in her waning years. Brampton, Ontario.

11. A MAN CALLED KENTISH

A weed-imbibing taxi driver unloads his troubles and criticism about the government in my visit to Jamaica in 1997.

12. THE CONVERSATION

A young lad tells me about his firing from a recent job and an upcoming interview for another, in Brampton, Ontario 2000.

13. CHILEAN FJORDS

The vastness, the scenic beauty, the sad and swiftly dwindling ice caps in the fjords of Chile are shown in a photo taken in 2009. Photo published in The Toronto Star Travel Section.

14. CRIES FROM CAMBODIA

A photograph taken in 2009 shows the unforgettable memorial to half a million Cambodians killed in a dark period in the country's history.

15. SHATABHI EXPRESS

Before I board a train to visit the Taj Mahal in 2010, I experience the sights, sounds and smells of the train station. Photograph taken by me is part of this piece.

16. ON THE STREETS OF MUMBAI

Being at the right place at the right time?a photographer's dream, facilitated this photograph in Mumbai, 2010.

17. QUEUES

Waiting to board a bus in Victoria Station, London, England in 2011 makes for interesting observations about the passengers.

18. MIDNIGHT COACH TO PENZANCE

A woman faces eviction on the bus to Penzance in 2011 and the conductor is adamant that she must leave.

19. THE GREAT WALL

The Great Wall of China is everything said and written about it, and more, as I discover in a trip in 2016. Photograph taken by me is part of this piece.

20. KAIETEUR

As seen through my eyes as a first-time visitor to the wondrous Kaieteur in 2019. Photograph taken by me is part of this piece.

Ken Puddicombe's first calling was in the Accounting profession. He's a Professional Accountant [CPA,CMA] who provided controllership for a number of companies in the private sector before he retired to pursue his love of writing. His hobbies includes travelling and he is slowly covering all five continents, having travelled to South East Asia, Africa, South America, and Europe. He considers himself a people watcher-watcher and loves to observe all aspects of the human psyche. His writing has appeared in newspapers and literary journals. Originally from British Guiana [now Guyana] in South America, he immigrated to Canada in 1971 and lives in Brampton, Ontario with his wife, two daughters and two grandchildren. Racing With The Rain, his first novel is set in British Guiana, Cuba, Canada and Guyana was published in 2012. His second novel Junta was published in 2014 and is set in the fictional island of Saint Anglia. His collection of short stories Down Independence Boulevard was released in 2017 and won the 2022 GUYANA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE (FICTION). His first book of poems Unfathomable and Other Poems was released in May 2020. His genre is fiction, based on international locations but especially focussed in Canada, the Caribbean and Guyana.