Although the main roads can be busy, there are hundreds of miles of quiet country roads. I prefer to ride loops and luckily, with the many back roads here it is easy to put together many rides of 50 to 100 miles or more. Here, is coastal Rhode Island and SW Massachusetts to near New Bedford Mass so some segments, my favorites, border Buzzards Bay or Block Island Sound. I typically route the ride such that a break or lunch stop is at a beach.

As a boy in high school, I worked on a farm during summer months so I have a soft spot for corn, squash and potato fields. barns and farm animals. I get a warm glow knowing not everyone is pushing paper for a living.