Thank you Arlis for your reasonable skepticism. I endorse your position heartily. Thank you Hebrews 11:6 for your kind and gentle responses. You have done much to keep this wonderful thread full of glory to God and not disputations among Christians.
That said, I have something to add! ;-)
As I speculated on whether Paul walked, rode a donkey, camel, or horse, this passage came to mind:
Acts 23:Paul Transferred to Caesarea
23 Then he called two of his centurions and ordered them, “Get ready a detachment of two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen[b] to go to Caesarea at nine tonight. 24 Provide horses for Paul so that he may be taken safely to Governor Felix.”
Paul’s life is under threat by many Jews who bound themselves by a vow to kill him. The left at night and came to Antipatris. That was about 38 miles or half of the 75 miles to Caesarea.
This is the only time I see in scripture Paul upon a horse and it’s the Roman cavalry. Were the Jews to have horses, I think Rome might consider that provocative—rather like an occupied country owning tanks.
Still, I kind of wish Paul was upon a horse on his trip to Damascus. Think of the stupendous irony years later as God uses horses to save his life, compared to when Paul used them as Saul to persecute Christians!
Map and distances are here: https://distancecalculator.us/search.php?from=Caesarea&to=Jerusalem
To Antipas: https://distancecalculator.us/search.php?from=Antipatris&tcity1ll=&to=Jerusalem
Regardless of Saul’s manner of travel on his lengthy journey, which was so insignificant to the story it merited neither mention nor even oblique reference in the text (hence this current debate from silence), the reason this unique and momentous event was reported so fully by Luke was what actually was far more worthy of extensive discussion here. The radical transformation of Saul is rivaled in scope and purpose and drama in Scripture only by Abram’s and Moses’ (and to a lesser extent by Nebuchadnezzar’s and Jonah’s and Peter’s).