I almost always ride alone due to my schedule and although my routes don't come close to what you've described, an accident can happen in any situation right?

I do what others have said. I mention to my husband the general area I plan to ride, I have my cell phone with ICE (In Case of Emergency #) programmed in, and I have an ankle bracelet with my name and emergency contract on it that I got from RoadID.com.

So....I do what I can to identify myself in case of emergency. Life is too short to be too scared. I did that for too long and I don't want to live my life like that any longer.

Having said all that, do you have the equivalent of Craigslist there? Or use this site and try and recruit some partners to ride. There are a lot of women like myself that ride alone most of the time but would love to be on-call for a ride.