How do you find your route?

[malkin]

Ask other riders, ride around, drive around, walk around, keep tweaking it until you like it, tweak it again when you are bored with it.

Do the exploratory sometime when you do not have to get to work on time and looking good.

[Melalvai]

It is true that you want a different route to bike than to drive.

Have you taken Traffic Skills 101? Many roads that seem dangerous to you now will open up when you have those skills.

I have heard that Houston is a difficult city to bike in. But not impossible. Explore a bit on weekends until you find your route. Do you know cyclists in the area? (Are there any on here?) They might have some insight.