I may of made some erroneous assumptions based upon the information offered. If I did, I will apologize.<br/><br/>I placed the time of day from mid to late afternoon because.<br/><br/>1. Inn's/taverns are never busy before mid-afternoon. The patrons are working in fields and shops until at least this point of the day.<br/><br/>2. The beligerant NPC was drunk and a large man. As it takes large men some time to get drunk, and real alcoholic drinks rarely appear before mid-day... mid-afternoon seemed the earliest.<br/><br/>3. I didn't see it as likely that PC's would arrive in the morning for the celebration that was going on; for characters to be drinking and involved in conversation before mid-day just seemed unlikely.<br/><br/>So, my assumptions.<br/><br/>On traveling.  The party could certainly start out the next morning, but it didn't seem as likely that they would all want to sit around all evening, go to bed and set out the next morning with the certainty that they would have to spend a night on the road and arrive sometime mid-day of the 3rd day. (The current day being day 1). As the average gnome has a movement of 20, that 15 hour time frame seemed most plausible, but even highly trained infantry can't hoof it more than 10 hhours a day, it would still require that over-night camp.<br/><br/>Assuming that not everyone bought horses... as mentioned, Lydia didn't... it would take time to find and aquire horses.... if everyone had coin for them. Lydia has about 50 GP, but I'm not sure that would pay for a horse tack and feed. That 5 hours would put the party into the destination in the late evening... between 7 and 9PM. Depending on the time of year and terrain, it would probably be afternight-fall and id the communityis walled, it would be problematic.<br/><br/>It's certainly possible to start the next day, with horses and arrive by mid-afternoon of day 2. The question is who has and can aquire a mount.