I mostly walk around the world so maybe i'll run into him by mistake. Seems like if you just followed the road you'd run into him?
There's a book of clarity or something like that in riverwood...says it basically lays out a trail for you to find your quest objective. Something like that, maybe that'd help.
I managed to escape my last quest with the word but without waking up the boss dude. Backtracked out, levelled up by killing a bunch of bandits, collecting pretty much useless junk. I would've thought that by following the main quest I would be up to par with the enemies I face etc. Guess not. Maybe I have the difficulty level too high, I'll have to check.
I think if I had something else to do I wouldn't be playing this game. meh.
Fell off a mountain, fell down a mountain.
Found a mammoth, well 2 actually today. Took a picture but I don't know how to get it off my Steam account to put here.