Hah, you should include the very long cart trip to that price of wine. We also have a chests full of steel, so we don't worry too much about spending it.
I kinda like taking a walk around every now and then. I usually don't get out of Bottleneck much, so it's a nice opportunity to see how the world is developing. But yeah, I'm not making such walks if there's not a bar of steel at least in it for me.