It can vary so much from kingdom to kingdom! In the Outlands, for example, one of the first questions a peer might ask about someone brought up would be "does s/he travel?" It really seemed necessary to travel the entire kingdom, get to know a lot of people and make yourself known.

However, in Drachenwald, where travel can be a bit more expensive and a bit more difficult*, it's not that much of an issue as long as the peers in your region have a clue as to who you are and what you're doing. And since there are fewer peers here than in most of the other kingdoms, we really have to be responsible to keep track of who's doing what in our regions.

*We're driving almost two hours tomorrow morning to an event in our own shire, and that's a local event. At least it's in the same country. :)