Wow, thank you everyone for your responses so far! I wasn't expecting everyone to be so positive about it. It's really encouraging - it must be a pretty awesome thing to do if you guys are so encouraging about it. I'm off to read the journals suggested right now (I'm getting kind of hooked on crazyguyonabike the last few days... CA in NC, you mentioned being able to filter by gender on there... how do you do that? I'm not seeing it.) and daydream some more.

Edit: Uforgot mentioned getting a road id. What's that?