Edrick, you forgot a step. "Wait until its daylight" right before "Kithkor."
Or was that part of "Make sure you don't die?!"
Back on live, I started in FP, and had a higher level "friend" who kept saying "Come to Qeynos, I'll twink you." Took me 8 levels and help from a friend to finally have the guts to make that glorious trip.
... just to find that he had moved, "come to Freeport, I'll twink you."
I did the second run on my own, no problems at all (other than changing my underwear after Kithkor). And rapidly figured out that this "friend" wasn't in the twinking business =p
"Come to Qeynos!" is still an inside joke amongst my friends. I do miss the epic-ness of it though. The modern MMOs just don't give the same sense of scale that the grand run across Antonica gave me.
edit - EQ atlas (
http://www.eqmacwiki.com/eqatlas/atlas.html) is your friend for all cross country trips!