Somethings take insanely long amount of time to materialize. Our Tent buying plan was one example. It took us approximately 2 years to finally decide upon that one tent. So many brands and so many specifications. But, sometime I blame it on this country too - deals, online and in-store prices et al. Number of doors and windows, pole type, number of person it can hold and seasons it can survive! We even walked though the camping site to see what brand/type of tent people owned. But, that didn't help. Finally it was decided as Alps Mountaineering (while REI disappointed us and NorthFace could not have been for a first tent) one lazy Saturday afternoon, and after all the different price each seller quoted, a mom-n-pop store just down the road gave us for the least price in the entire of US! Thanks to Google, we were proud owners of a 5 person, 3 season tent in the next 15 mins!
And it was time to setup our Tent. Lexington Reservoir is a place, I had spotted long back and we had decided to come here. Yes, the place was decided even before we bought the Tent!
This place on is just of of Santa Cruz SR17, but difficult to find the road that leads to the Reservoir. Looks like people hardly know this place as its quiet and serene.
It took us ~10mins to setup the Tent. Impressive....
Birding time...
Hiking around the reservoir....
Santa Cruz Mountains in the Back Drop, a valley, a stream, the green grass, the colorful wild flowers, the bees and the birds and our little tent amidst these......
We wanted to live here forever....
