For Summer Vacation Joe Peasant went Epic?

[Particle_Man]

If the typical D&D party is meant to have 4 encounters a day, and the typical D&D party advances a level every 13.33 encounters, then, not taking into account any training or travel time, we have about 67 game days before the 1st level character becomes Epic level.

Not bad for a summer vacation.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

This one time, at Bard Camp ...

 

[Barak]

If you take the average fantasy novel that starts with the main protagonist(s) as the equivalent of a 1st level character, and substract "novel" time to remove unenventful travel/whatever, you'll probably find that he levels up even quicker than that.