Thanks for the help, I will check it out!
*edit* Yes I quite quickly found a forest there, thanks.
*edit2* Are the 'junk barrels' now obsolete? I have located 2 outside NCR that have the 'bottles' in front of it, as I saw described in another thread, but again, no hand icon. Are city map locations the only way to get some now?
Another question, for when I do have my character up and running... Are their factions that will actually take a lower level character, or do I need to solo up to lvl21? I would certainly benefit from having other players around to ask dumb questions