Which failure by many white settlers caused significant problems in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1800s? a..the failure to construct missions in the region
b..the failure to bring missionaries
c..the failure to participate in trade with American Indians
d..the failure to acknowledge American Indians as equals

(Missionaries and Pioneers in the Pacific Northwest)

The author tries to contextualize the changing pace of travel and what it has meant for travelling from a point to another.

Explanation:

The writer argues that because the people take less time to reach from point A to point B they actually have proportionally more time to stay or explore point B which was not a luxury provided before.

At the same time it sort of laments the impatience of this generation as we are so used to minimal travel times.

The older days had journeys usually lasting longer than the visit to a place itself with months and months spent on either a ship or a caravan.

This is not the case anymore and the journey has not remained meaningful. It is now literally just getting from point A to point B.