I have traveled east to see some of the historical places. The thing that I was most surprised at is how close all of them are to each other.
Being raised in the west we are used to vast distances so come to expect that in other places as well.
But then you remember that all travel was by foot or horse so distance would be a problem.
Even that being the case many early explorers and frontier people traveled vast distances over periods of years to go to new areas. Such as going to Cali. or Oregon might entail
4 or 5 years before the got to the destination.
