Finally, On June 14th, you meet again at Ray Jay's and pick up Lord Malbar. You are all mounted on horses, ponies and things. It is a pleasant late spring day and a far cry from yesterday, when Sandas was buffeted by high winds and torrential rains.
You set off for the Greyhawk Gate, Malbar leading.
Riding west out of Sandas you follow the Old Dwarvish Road. For the first hour you ride through pastoral farmlands close by the Grande River, then the woods thicken as you approach the mountains. Late in the morning you reach an intersection with a lesser road, just beyond which is the border with the Dwardarf. There is an inn at the intersection called the Smoking Dragon.
You stop for an early lunch, and are not overly impressed with the food or drink.
Malbar leads you north up the lesser road. Soon you cross the Grande via an ancient stone bridge and enter the region known as the Borderlands. Drandar and Zanax know this road well.
You ride all afternoon and well into the evening, before making a camp in a clearing that Drandar knows well, near an intersection with another road. For most of the time since leaving the Dragon you have been riding roughly northeast, paralleling the flanks of the Rocky Mountains.