Wonder why the lady, who loved your storytelling when she thought it was "made-up" couldn't deal with the truth and, I thought, the clever way you included her in the "story"?
You would have thought she would have been even more impressed that you were not making it up.
On the other hand maybe she was not into hiking or nature trips, theory book ones OK but not for real.
Actually, she didn't care whether it was from a book or from my mind, but I was kinda insulted that she assumed that I was reading it from a book. I lost interest very quickly based on that and on one or two other things she had said previously.