bil paul is retired from a career doing marketing and public relations for the Postal Service. Alongside that work, he created and self-published a number of non-fiction books: "The Tri-X Chronicles" (containing his 1960s photographs), "Mailmen's Dog Stories" (an anthology he edited), and two bicycle touring guides ("Crossing the U.S.A. the Short Way" and "Bicycling California's Spine"). He originated a third guide, "The Pacific Crest Bicycle Trail," which was published by Bittersweet Publishing. He modified and further researched the PCBT for the Adventure Cycling Association, which mapped it...