Matt
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New plan.
We backtrack all the way to where we left the main BLM road, then follow that out.
No more side roads.
No more shortcuts.
I thought of the old man at the gas station.
You see, something looks like a shortcut.
You ignore it.
Works for me, I said, as long as we're moving.
We turned around.
The rusted sedan faded in the dust behind us.
Thirty minutes later, I saw it again.
Same car, same angle, same tumbleweed.
What the actual... Miguel started, then stopped himself because there was nothing to finish the sentence with.
Okay, now we're stuck in the Twilight Zone, he said instead.
Did we take a wrong turn?
We haven't had a turn, Ryan said tightly.
It's one road, one.
I've been following the ruts.
There's nowhere to go wrong.
The GPS still showed us inching toward the main road.