Need some advice about traveling

[Leamon]

Me, my gf and my brothers are going to play together in a group regularly. I have to play the healer, a role that I dont particulary enjoy, I was thinking of playing a barbarian shaman which I find a bit more appealing than cleric or druid

My problem, they're at greater faydark and we're starting from scratch. Back in the old days I actually pulled something like this with a SK Ogre. I actually moved to live in faydark and surroundings. Ended up being able to go into the city and everything without the guards killing me heh. But the round trips to train and buy spells etc were hard, even back then when the servers were full. I used to know the map like my house, but I dont really remember much anymore, so I have a few questions to see how I can handle this:

- At what level should I be able travel without too much trouble by walking from the north to faydark?

- If we end up playing for very long and get into the hard stuff, will I end up regreting not rolling a cleric for our group? :P

Thanks in advance for any info or ideas :P.