"That must have been a pain for when you wanted to go back to locations you'd already made it to..."

Mind you, that's how it's done in the real world but again: Lazy.

"I can't stand the winter. Never dealt with that cold of temperatures before coming here so I... just kind of sat around most of that season." Gods, he wasted a lot of time.

"They offer that much freedom? That's really cool... I had wondered about that but never looked into it... How difficult is it defeating the Elite Four?"