Well, maybe not a favorite ride, but here's something you can try.
Sometime after midnight and especially after an evening of drunken revelry, take a ride through the darkened streets of your own neighborhood. Don't push for speed, this isn't a cardiovascular workout; just enjoy the buzz as you glide silently through the cool evening. The houses are dark, the traffic is gone, even the dogs are asleep. The world is a quiet dark blue, sparked with the warm glow of a porch light or the flickering of a television through an open window.
Familiar roads now look completely different as dark shadows pierced with the occasional sharp light from the street lamps confuse and hide your usual landmarks. Street signs are unreadable in the gloom as you realize that you don't know precisely where you are. You know that you're near home, on a street you've probably ridden on a hundred times, but you're lost. You feel that thrill of confusion that you get when you visit a city for the first time, or hear a new version of a favorite song. It doesn't last long, soon enough you'll recognize a house or a street corner and suddenly everything snaps back into place.
For me, these night rides replace that heavy groggy feeling from too much drink in a smoky bar with a wonderful lightness and clarity. Maybe it's just the beer, but for a few minutes at least, I am completely refreshed and at peace.
Enjoy the ride
carl