Donald and I still REALLY wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, LITTLE by little it breaks it down until you FORGET what it was in the FIRSTPLACE.
HUMANS pull together in an odd way when they're in the wilderness. It's astonishing how few people litter and how much they help one ANOTHER. INDEED, the smartphone APP to navigate the Pacific Crest Trail, Halfmile, is a labor of love by hikers who make it available as a FREE download.
In Britain, because I live here, I can ALSO run into problems of envy and COMPETITION. But all this is just in a day's WORK for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a COMPLETE fool. Oh, WELL.
The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have FUN with it. At then END of the NIGHTDROP them off at the wrong HOUSE.