ELI5 answer: they didn’t have google maps or the weather channel. All they knew is that they were hungry and would starve if they stayed where they were. They had no idea of the conditions of the direction they were heading. When they got to the new place, some decided to keep going while some decided to make the best of it where they were. Remember, everybody was walking, so it was a tough sell to get people to commit to another stretch of days, weeks, months of rough travel.
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