"Classes of Travel" recounts lessons learned and taught in dozens of trips around the globe by a man of contradictions teaching English to university students, Thai high school students and teachers as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Saudi military personnel, refugees from Southeast Asia and others, serving on the front lines of the so-called "war on drugs" as a U.S. Customs Inspector, training border law enforcement officers in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Former Soviet Union and serving as a diplomat in Washington, D.C., Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, war-torn Afghanistan and Croatia.