He needed to find a train, or hell, be able to just use the main road without having to ditch dive every other hour since he had a lot of ground to cover. Sure, he was still making some manner of headway between a week on foot and nearly four days’ worth of train travel west. Nevertheless, he was still avoiding any settlement larger than five houses and had to outright spend hours just hiding when the road got too busy. Not to mention the detours he had to take going through some wild brush. He'd be making far better progress if he didn't have to worry about any of this nonsense.