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Jeep Evening at Boca Reservoir

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A Jeep is parked on a dirt road beside a lake at sunset, with a tree and hills in the background.

Took the Jeep out to Boca after dinner, top off, doors on, no plan past the reservoir road. Boca is close enough that it doesn't feel like going anywhere, which is most of the appeal — twenty minutes and you're on dirt with the water on one side.

Followed the shoreline track around the east side and parked above the beach for a while. The bank drops steeply where the water has pulled back, that pale ring of rocks between the sage and the lake. A few campers were tucked in along the far shore near the trees, but the stretch we were on was empty.

Stayed until the sun sat on the ridge, then bounced back down the road with the air already going cold, the way it does up here even in June.

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