The official touring bicycle route through this area is over mostly narrow two lane rural blacktop roads. Often with lots of hills, blind curves and along sections of roads with steep drop-offs or ditches sometimes with with crotch-high guardrails and no shoulders wide enough to ride or pull over on. This time of year the weeds and scrub brush usually has grown tall and all of the way out to the pavement edges, too. In many places vehicle drivers can't see bicyclists ahead until they are right on their butt. It's beyond me how they don't get run over and run off into a deep drop-offs and ditches unintentionally all the time.
