Which of the following Day 1-3 strategies are better?

1) Organically picking up tons and tons of basic resources right away while lurching slowly into new territory until you have good stockpile, then jettisoning stacks onto a marked location along the road, then following the roads until you find 20 gold, chester, and a good camp location.

2) Picking up like half a stack of twigs, logs, flint, i.e. the bare essentials for travel, then beelining down roads until you've found gold, chester, and the camp, then going out to properly gather all the basics AFTER the camp is planted.