Would just remind everyone that in this era of the real world, when people did travel, it was by and large on foot... if you were not a noble or wealthy in your own right, a personal mount was a dream, not a necessity.<br/><br/>A farm might have a horse, but it ws more often the case that things like plowing and carrying of produce to market was done with an animal that was jointly owned by several farms and moved about as needed.<br/><br/>So, people were use to walking, didn't get sore muscles from a day's work, and as a general rule, were accustomed to it.<br/><br/>Of course, the average person  rarely traveled more than a few miles from his home in his lifetime. and that practice persisted up into the early years of the 20th century... before everyone started moving to urban instead of rural communities.