The road from Penna Plain to the Daverwood appears to have once been a good road, but it has now be neglected. Judging from the tracks, there have only been a few wagons passing this way since the last dust storm.
Encounter with bandits? No, not enough merchants to make it worth their while. No random monster to be anything other than just a waste of time...
A quite anomalous pine forest sticks out of some of the most rugged terrain you've seen.