Is it proper for a monk, who strictly follow the trainings rules, to ask for transportation? Hitch hike, ask for a ride, ask a family member or a stranger to get him a bus ticket, boat ticket or a airplane ticket?
Or if he can only be offered this things without asking?
Of course at the time of Buddha transportation was extravagant, but monk probably took Boats from time to time to spread the Buddha's teachings oversea or in the other side of a river, in non-Buddhist country ...
Now day's many Monk's meditations teachers travel the world, are they wanting and asking things in order to do so or if it's the lay's that ask them to do so and arrange every thing for them, giving them the opportunity outside the Bhikkhu's will?