This may be hard to believe, but our second date was an overnight scamper to the nearby, towering mountains and forests of Sequoia National Park. As far as dating is concerned, we set a pretty high bar for ourselves with this one. But why not head to the woods to up the ante from date number one? When you’re both in love with getting away to bathe in the forests, and it just so happens to be a short (for us) three and a half hour drive from our meetup spot at the Wal-Mart in Santa Maria, there’s almost no better way to find out how the other person adapts to sleeping in the back of a Subaru. When the car camping just so happens to be set in one of the world’s most picturesque locations in the world, that’s an entirely different set of circumstances, of course. So let’s get into that part of the date.

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