I've read a few threads about "fast travel" and it usually boils down to it's not going to happen to prevent people from abusing alts. However that punishes people that don't use alts; right now I'm about 4 hours in a ~12 hour walk to get my wife's character to my character. She was all ready to play this game with me until I told her how long she'd have to walk to get to me; the only way I could convince her was to tell her I'd get her character to mine. As far as that's concerned I don't mind too much but what if I talk someone else into playing. I sure as hell ain't going to do it a 3rd or 4th time, the only reason I'm doing it a 2nd time is because it's for my wife.
I understand that you want to hamper people abusing alts but you're also hampering legitimate players and quite frankly, that's bullshit. I'm not going to be able to talk anyone into making that trek and my little area isn't going to grow because of it with exception to the possible random passerby and there's no guarantee that a random person will join us or that either my wife or myself would like having that person around.
Again I understand why there isn't fast travel to kin, but that doesn't justify punishing legitimate players. So please, let fast travel to kin happen, even if it is just to the claim that'll suit me just fine.