I ride alone all the time. I have a wonderful husband, but as far as he's concerned- if it's nice enough to ride, it's nice enough to play golf. So he's willing to keep an eye on our son so I can ride, but I'm still alone. But I first started riding alone anyway. It is certainly nice when I do have someone to ride with, and there are groups that meet to ride around here, I just don't at this time consider myself good enough to keep up, and I don't want to hold people back.
The advantage to riding by yourself is you can do it whenever it's convenient to you, you don't need to schedule anything.
vickie