I think I get it but ......I see people say they don't fast travel but they use carriages.Is it just the RP thing? Isn't a carriage the same as fast travel,and you have to pay for it? Just curious.

The difference for me is this: carriage fast travel is an action taken by the character in-game; map-based fast travel is an action taken by the player outside the game. To me carriage travel feels more like like a roleplaying way to fast travel, map-based fast travel does not.

That and you can fast travel to towns you've never been to before, for a price. Same as the silt striders in Morrowind.

I am bummed at the lack of snow whale mounts in Skyrim.

Yes, they are basically the same thing. As others have said though it may seem more realistic from a role-playing standpoint to use carriages and "pay" to travel.

The way I do it...characters can't fast travel from just any location,unless I roleplay they have a teleportation spell...they have to walk to a city,town or the like...where a carriage,or a realistic place a carriage or horse would be available...or a carriage would atleast be passing by that way...

Both. If you haven't discovered a place then other than actually walking there, carriage or boat is the only option.

I think TES has got it spot on with travel.

Carriages are how I keep my role-playing immersion. Even though it's designed to look like your character walked to the location (change in time, weather, etc.) fast travel still breaks my RP feeling.

It would be much better if carriages functioned like they do in Red Dead Redemption...that is what I would like to see in the next Elder Scrolls...

Essentially the same but with more style.

But you don't have to find a city first before using it.