Like @ChrisF I’ve spent the last year exploring the virtual cycling world. I’m assuming it’s Fulgaz rides you speak of? It’s suited my needs grand and I took to it a lot better than I ever thought I would.
Initially reading the OP I thought Oh yes you’re right. I choose my rides completely randomly closing my eyes and holding down and across arrows and see where I land. I’ve been around the world without leaving home and always know where the coffee stop is. The weather is always good and it never rains. I’ve found if my random selection lands in the USA or Australia I’m tempted, and often do, to nudge it onto the next ride.
Things I dislike about USA is wide roads, traffic noise, big bloated vehicles. There’s a ride in the Rockies while on a cycle path the scenery gets monotonous and traffic noise horrendous. I find the East Coast states more agreeable for scenery and obviously riding land marks like the Golden Gate Bridge are interesting, they’re rarely repeatable. Yet the gravel rides in USA are great, maybe I just love the sound of loose grit. Australia it’s hard to define why I skip them. Often wide highways again, featureless houses, and dry soil maybe.
I’ve found that rides I’ve repeated, more than once, are usually in GB, Pyrenees, Norway.
Would I choose my real time touring destination from these experiences? Absolutely not but I suppose you can’t help but form some opinion. e.g. there’s a ride from Penrith to I think it was Pooley Bridge which was really boring yet, in the real world, I’ve cycled probably every road in Cumbria and never found it boring.
Edit to correct warred
to world