Captured as we are in this age with the correct and precise measure of time - places to be, people to see, appointments to keep, not to mention meals to be prepared and eaten, all at a certain time - it is easy to forget that the old, old timers did things intuitively.  They ate when they were hungry and got where they were going when they got there.  It was a rather simple approach I suppose.  If you were alone in the wilderness riding through lands you had never seen before and not really knowing what was ahead, it might have been folly to be in a big hurry and to measure your success by the ticking of an imaginary clock.  Not only was it not done, it was not even thought about.  Things happened surely soon enough.