I couldn't get through all the comments, so I might be repeating someone.
The march toward Dragon Utopia is a heavily negative move (if you can't see Dragon Utopia). Running across the wilderness while there are still unexplored roads isn't very strategic at all, and running with your father across the wilderness where "everything has already been stolen before us," and without prior scouting to boot, is complete nonsense. Or a cheat. A normal move here would have been either to keep going along the road or to portal home.
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