I too like to travel on the back of my Chocobo. The only time I would use money for traveling, would be to pay for the airship or ferry fare. I've been stupid enough to travel from the south shroud to Gridania, so that I could take the airship to ul'dah and walk to vesper bay from there. It would've been faster to walk directly to vesper bay from the south shroud (through east and west thanalan)

(^_^; )