Congrats! You're now infected with the bug. Ride safe, acquire an underseat bag with repair kit, spare tube, etc. ASAP.
Ride With GPS has a cool tool for finding routes. Here's a link to it with your area plugged in. Fiddle with it as needed to find some handy routes pre-planned by others which will presumably follow appropriate routes for road cycling, avoiding traffic, etc. It's not perfect, but it's definitely better than total guessing!
https://ridewithgps.com/find#search/...%5Bsort_by%5D=