And oh, did Bella’s attitude improve when she was stuffed with McDonald’s – chocolate milkshake and all – as they cruised north on the 170 until it became the 140 when they entered Colorado.

The gloom and doom of leaving La Plata had been – at least temporarily – replaced with an inquisitive outlook that bordered on relative excitement. Darcy was adamant that, once this was all sorted out – whatever THIS was, of course – a return to the little town was ...