User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right part 2/@comment-4608405-20130601220809/@comment-9062114-20130601222149

I'm not sure the specific reasons, but it does show that Ulfric will go out into the field. so it doesn't illegitimaze my point.

Nobody said he talked about it at all. All he had to do was talk about it and it would be done. But nobody says anything about him doing that.

Travelers could mean non-Nords. Sea travel isn't always the best. Especially in Skyrim where the only port is far up north.