The Bicycle Shop is a front for running a safe house in Kansas. The visitors coming and going are humans from other worlds and visit this world to learn and move forward. The "ranch" is run by a colorful older women and the program manager is the owner of the bicycle shop. William C. Knowles, Ed.D. is a retired former mental health and School Psychologist. He is also a retired US Army reservist who served in Vietnam as an Army paratrooper with the 173rd Airborne Brigade. He was also activated for the war in Iraq and served during a 2004 tour of duty in the Northern Iraqi desert.