Fallout: New Vegas Help Please?

I'm doing the "Heartache by the Numbers" quest and I need to get to the Crimson Caravan HQ. I'm heading north and got stopped by a guy in Sloan saying there's Deathclaws that way. I decided to head North anyway and got MURDERED by a Deathclaw. I tried another way off the main road and there were Giant Scorpions everywhere..Is there any safe way to get to the Crimson Caravan or New Vegas?