Sometimes things can change. In one way or another. Feel free to share memories of bicycling if you like.
There’s a few places close to me now, a packed gravel canal park and a rail-to-trail. Used to ride the NJ coast, straight and flat usually with a good wind from the south (for anyone familiar its from Manasquan Inlet to the end of Island Beach State Park). Wide shoulder lanes except the park where traffic wasn’t a bother to me since there was nothing else around!
Have a Trek Hybrid with many miles on it...