So I was just reading that it takes the average human adult between 15 to 25 min to walk a mile. This is a casual walk , not like power / exercise walking. So Dylan, who appears small for his age, has shorter legs than an average adult, although that might be countered by having more physical energy than an adult. So I will ( in my totally unscientific way) call it even and say Dylan can walk at the same pace as the average adult ! So we're talking 4 miles of walking . That's one hour to up to 1 hr 20 min of JUST walking time to get to this lake. I would assume the info I got of up to 15 to 25 min was based on walking across flat ground, which Dylan would not be doing to get to that lake. He probably would have to go over some terrain, hop on a rock, etc etc. So I'm thinking we could increase his walking time to 90 min, roughly, give or take. If Dylan knew dad would be gone for 4 hrs of errand running and thought he would just sneak in a little fishing while he had time,,,,,he would be spending 3 of the 4 hours free , with walking ONLY. This means he would have 1 hr fishing only. This means to get one hour of fishing only, he would have had to start walking the minute MR left for his errands. ........... .............. ........... Because we know he would want to be home by 11:30 to go to the friends' house. Right? So if Dylan wanted to hop up and go fishing so badly that he went on this big trek, he had to have gotten up the second MR left . If he was that wide awake, he would have been sitting up and saying " dad , wow I gotta go fishing while you're gone, I just love that lake and want to get in some quick fishing time before going to my friends house. I'll be back when u are back from errands'' . Right? But that didn't happen.
Rambling? Yes. Eliminating other theories, at least in my own mind? Yes !
There is no way that Dylan went to the lake on his own . The only logical
way would have been if MR said on day one " dylan told me he was going to
fish while i ran errands'
Thoughts?