We moved quickly now towards the Jeep, hurrying as if we had to catch up with that truck. I don’t know quite how to say this, but it was as if we were girls again, walking through the dark part of the yard, a little afraid, a little excited by our fears, anticipating the lighted house just around the bend— That’s the way I felt as we started up the first mountain.
Such a sad, but well written part of the book, especially because we already know what happens so leaving it at this is all that is needed