>Switching horses every twenty miles, under ideal conditions, with the right >sort of horse, eating in the saddle or not at all, and not sleeping, it is >possible to travel 500 miles in a 30 hour period...that is, it is possible >to average more than 16mph. What's always made me wonder is how you fantasy authors figure stuff like this out. Is there some secret and weighty tome locked away in the vaults of the Fantasy Writer's Guild, or did you have to do the math yourself? Always curious, Snap ---------------------------------------------- "I'm lots smarter than you are. I challenge you to understand even one of my paragraphs!" ---------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ Hela veckans väder http://www.msn.se/vader