You can ride from city to city and enjoy the scenery for the entire ride.
If you pass a town, cave or whatever that you've never discovered your map will update itself right there. You can discover a lot of new places like that and check them out later or check them out right then.
The wagon will stop and let you out whenever you want then resume the trip when you reboard the wagon.
Your follower won't ride in the wagon but follows it and while animals and bandits ignore the wagon, they won't ignore your follower.
When they attack just tell the wagoneer to let you out then kill the bad guys, search and strip them then reboard the wagon to continue the trip.




