We were talking about that too. Not only to travel, but they had robbers and killers to worry about. Then there was the weather. We went through a sand storm in Texas that didn't bother us much in an air conditioned car, but on horseback?

>I thought about this many times on my drive home from San Diego. When I crossed the desert, I thought man what was it like back in the 1800's when someone wanted to get across this. Getting maybe 20 miles perday was good.