Very cool. Lots of little ingenious touches here and there by the whole group.
You might have inadvertently given the players a pressure relief valve. Typically, the party cannot “fast travel” to town without making a map first, and making such a large map is a challenging test for a 1st level Cartographer. Maybe town phase and camp phase got mixed up a little??? Town has Lifestyle cost and camp uses checks. Going to town sucks because it is expensive, dirty, filthy, and perhaps plague-ridden. Town is full of wary villagers, pickpockets in the streets, and a town watch ready to rough you up if you don’t pay your bills. Not sure if that was the case.
But from the sound of it everyone had a blast.