About an hour from C Lazy U Ranch, we turned on the country music. It wasn’t a long drive from Vail — less than two hours, long enough that the sun had time to slowly dip away from the spacious sky. Every mile toward Granby seemed to erase another piece of what had been a hectic week, one I could now leave behind to the tune of “Wide Open Spaces.” I felt a little giddy as we drew closer to the ranch, happily wearing the cowboy hat that usually just collects dust on a shelf in my closet.