I happened upon a person or two who were doing things I had heard were questy. Grapevine stuff to me. I asked them what they were doing. I got information. I lucked out due to prior knowledge (sort of) of something, and someone helped guide me through a thing or two. It was also fortunate I was able to exchange some information in return.

Assume you are doing a lowbie quest that may or may not take you many places. Think what areas are nearby to a location you may or may not already be going to. There are some easy stops while doing other things in game that take only a few minutes to do, but added together have quite the impact.

You could go the route of making a lowbie who will condie exploring for safe areas. Let me know how it goes.