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How does that travel change your characters? The iron law is that every scene should leave your characters in a different state from when they began, or, at very least, leave the reader with a different appreciation of their state from the one they had at the beginning of the scene. 

If the only change in your characters between setting out and arriving is that on arriving they are tired and dusty, then no significant change had occurred on the journey and the iron law says there is no scene there. 

If they are in a different state when they arrive compared to when they set out, however, then either some event on the road has changed their state and you need to relate that event, or the journey as a whole has changed their state and you need to relate the journey. 

Below all the various theories of what a story is and even what a plot is, is something very basic: stories are a set of state changes. They are a set of state changes that are felt and experienced, which have grit and blood and sweat and tears, but every bit of grit and blood and sweat and tears they contain must be the grit and blood and sweat and tears of a state change. 

No state changes, no story. No state change, no scene.