The way points of this bicycle route:
All my rides start here. It's my house. And I can see it from here, my house.
The East Bay Bike Path: it's long, it's flat, it's beautiful, and it's one of a very few bikeable avenues in or out of Warren, so you'll be seeing lots of it in my routes.
The first hill one encounters on this ride. It's pretty steep, but thankfully short.
Somewhere in here the pavement turns ugly. Not unrideable, but it never lets you forget it's there. For about ten miles the best strategy is to find the sweetspot that has been worn smooth by the endless passage of cars and stick to it as much as possible.
Within a half mile of this point there is a barn (lamentably not visible to google's satellite maps), whose roof has been done in two colours of tile in such a manner as to spell out HORTON thereon.
I think it was here where the MACY'S sign hove into view and realized just how far off track I had strayed. But 1: it's only a mistake if you regret it, and 2: if you're afraid of rough pavement and heavily trafficked roads, New England isn't the place for you in the first place.
