I'm not sure you can do a "wrong" reply here hun! You're doing just fine. The first time I posted - it must've taken me close to a half hour to ask a simple question coz I kept re-reading it and re-writing it! Now...half the time I'm not even spell checking!!
I forgot to mention that I do pretty much all my riding alone. I didn't have any riding friends until just recently and they don't ride anything over 20 miles with me. I always carry a cell phone, ID, insurance info, tools, and CO2 when I ride. The other thing I do is have the numbers programed in my cell phone as: parents, sister, brother, friend, etc so if I"m ever knocked out the EMTs know who belongs to me!
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming: "Yeah Baby! What a Ride!"