My commute is pretty tame. From my neighborhood I am on a relatively lightly traveled rural road for the first 6 miles. Fields, a few houses, some ponies and two horses. Then I cut through a developed neighborhood with bigger homes lining a golf course. Here I'll see joggers and dog walkers and the occasional recreational cyclist, but only in the warmer months. There is a bike lane through here, but it can often be blocked by wheeled trash bins or yard waste. Then I repeat with another rural road, eventually crossing a busier highway and through another neighborhood.

I have both ups and downs, and also some flats. But I have not had a flat in about a year.