Should be able to with a game like this. I went over the mountain riding my horse, found a mine on top of it

so mined that and found a half sunk Keep with lots of Necro's around summoning the undead - cleared that. Found the Lady Stone, a Mill, some invisible dude that killed me after not having saved for 10 mins, got back to the same point, no invisible dude, but a group of three guys and a girl that pretended to be in trouble (

) so got owned there too. Just having fun exploring at the mo.
Oh and don't piss off the giants at level 5. They WILL knock you into outer space. FACT.
I find I get side tracked very easily with other small missions or clearing caves and forts
Side tracked FTW, get to see more of the "world" and fun stuff.