Calm Lands (possible spoilers)
On my second time around the game, I decided to get everything, and it's giving me grief to no end. In Baaj Temple (I think), or on the lightning plains, I found a riddle that goes "There is a valley in a vast plain, blah blah blah blah check the giant thorn next to the vale." I went to the calm lands, and found a whirly thing on the ground that reads "The password is GODHAND" (yes, I knew about that password already, though not where it was located) and a thorn saying something about taking 49 steps forward and 7 to the right, and this sent me on a wild goose chase from thorn to whirly thing to thorn to... the middle of nowhere.
After my latest instructions to take 20 steps forward and 20 to the right, I am now standing in the middle of the calm lands, all alone. I can almost hear the programmers laughing at me, saying "Gawd, did somebody actually follow through on those ridiculous instructions? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
So, my question is, where am I supposed to end up? Did I take a wrong turn somewhere? Should I give up and just go beat the game already? I'm very frustrated, can you tell? I'll stop rambling now.