No need to go with a group.  Really it&#x27;s just like biking around your neighborhood, but then staying overnight where you end up, and then continuing on the next day.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;daxfohl.blogspot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;daxfohl.blogspot.com&#x2F;</a><p>Note I&#x27;m not particularly in shape, not &quot;brave&quot; by any traditional sense of the word, and hadn&#x27;t ridden a bike in 15 years before my first bike ride, from Poland to Turkey (the above is my second).  I have traveled quite a bit before then though.<p>I&#x27;d recommend knobby tires.  There are a good number of other riders I met along the way, but only one was using a road bike.