leequiring - The game has a travel map. It looks like this:
You get to this map by clicking on the travel button on the top bar. Is this what you meant?
As to the grind comment, yes we know. It's on our list to fix. How we will do it is that we will create a cheat menu which will allow you to increase the skill improvement you get from each success and training. For example, instead of a 1 point increase for training, you could choose 3 or 5 or 10 or something.