Smithwoods RV Rally - Summer 2009

[Recumbentman]

How about one of the RV parks in Pismo :U

[wavery]

I hate it that we missed this one..........were you guys dropping M80s down the toilets again???....... I told you that was going to get us a bad name......:mad:

How does one [COLOR="Red"]"OVERWHELM THE BATHROOMS"[/COLOR] I'm dying to know.....:sombraro:

Did you guys have a bunch of bean dishes at the potluck??


OVERWHELMED THE BATHROOMS :rolleyes:.....I did a Google search.......there isn't any such thing.........

[dkutz]

I hate it that we missed this one..........were you guys dropping M80s down the toilets again???....... I told you that was going to get us a bad name......:mad:

How does one [COLOR="Red"]"OVERWHELM THE BATHROOMS"[/COLOR] I'm dying to know.....:sombraro:

Did you guys have a bunch of bean dishes at the potluck??


OVERWHELMED THE BATHROOMS :rolleyes:.....I did a Google search.......there isn't any such thing.........

Wayne, the bathrooms near our group had some sort of pump motor on them to, I would guess, pump it up the hill to the septic tank.  The urinal went down our first day, not sure why, and was never fixed.  And someone packed one toilet with too much TP one day that took them two days to fix.  

Oh then the day that the COP's rolled though and Dave had to run to the bathroom to get rid of his medical marijuna...

[griffsdad]

I hate it that we missed this one..........were you guys dropping M80s down the toilets again???....... I told you that was going to get us a bad name......:mad:
 
How does one "OVERWHELM THE BATHROOMS" I'm dying to know.....:sombraro:
 
Did you guys have a bunch of bean dishes at the potluck??
 
 
OVERWHELMED THE BATHROOMS :rolleyes:.....I did a Google search.......there isn't any such thing.........

The whole campground had 3 toilets and 2 showers for the men. That's it.

[griffsdad]

Oh then the day that the COP's rolled though and Dave had to run to the bathroom to get rid of his medical marijuna...

The man is always keeping me down!!!!

[griffsdad]

How about one of the RV parks in Pismo :U

We've had several meet in the middle rallys at Pismo Beach Resort!! I would be up for it.

[boncrab]

We've had several meet in the middle rallys at Pismo Beach Resort!! I would be up for it.

Pismo has a problem with groups in August. We would have to go back to June and we moved from June at Pismo because it's still a little on the cold side.

[JohnandLeann]

Well there was the urinal that was out of order way before we arrived there.  I am very sure that they are on a septic system up there.  Their toilets sounded like they had grinders when they flushed, possibly to deal with the solids.  Kinda cramped in the stalls, doors always hitting me in the bum.  There were a lot of us using the facilities, putting a strain on their infrastructure.  Showers that did not always have hot water and shower heads that barely flowed.  
The facilities are just needing to be upgraded and I know that costs a lot of money!  

In spite of it all, we are sad that we cannot return here. It really was a very nice place to camp!  We were looking forward to next year there.

Thank you again Bonnie for this last rally and we will keep an eye out for the details for next year.  
We really like our SCCamper friends and the places that you all go to.

[griffsdad]

We too had a great time camping at Smithwoods - thanks Bonnie for being the wagonmaster. Hopefully we can find another campground to host our rally.

[Dee4j]

personally I veto further north..... It's already a 8-9 hour drive. I didn't really care That much for the campground next door to make that kind of drive. Have you checked out the KOA in Santa Cruz??

there has to be something further south...

[Azusateach]

I was afraid that something like this would happen.  I'd heard from some friends that they were pretty choosy about who they let in and hoped that things had changed.  Unfortunately that wasn't the case, but at least they didn't kick us out.  Guess they wanted our money -- at least this summer.

You know, we all went to the Thousand Trails preserve a few years ago and it was manageable.  And there's also Yosemite Pines that would work.  Here's their website:  http://www.yosemitepinesrv.com/index.html

I'd go back to somewhere in Pismo, too, but they've just gotten awfully difficult to deal with after mid-June and not many people can go much earlier than that because of school.

At the rate things are going up there Smithwoods won't be there next year anyway ...

Laura

[cjpoppin]

Wow I feel so bad about missing this camp out we really wanted to make this trip.  However just couldn't do it with Jim's health at risk so I hope something is found up in the general area so we can see some of the neat things you all saw....We as a group have never been kicked out of anywhere that I know of we've come close....Hahaaa  I think they must be used to the little old RV groups and just do not care for the frolic of kids.....To bad some people grow so old they can't enjoy the fun and games of kids........Hope I never get that old.......This is one of the reasons we are SCCampers we enjoy the kids and watching them see things for the first time and enjoy their youthfulness.  Keeps us young ya right.........Well where ever next year ends up we will plan on being there......See some of you in Sept....Feels like forever.......

[Dee4j]

I was afraid that something like this would happen.  I'd heard from some friends that they were pretty choosy about who they let in and hoped that things had changed.  Unfortunately that wasn't the case, but at least they didn't kick us out.  Guess they wanted our money -- at least this summer.

You know, we all went to the Thousand Trails preserve a few years ago and it was manageable.  And there's also Yosemite Pines that would work.  Here's their website:  http://www.yosemitepinesrv.com/index.html

I'd go back to somewhere in Pismo, too, but they've just gotten awfully difficult to deal with after mid-June and not many people can go much earlier than that because of school.

At the rate things are going up there Smithwoods won't be there next year anyway ...

Laura

well I enjoyed yosemite but not enough to endure that 12 hour drive up the gas sucking ginormous mountain again...If I'm going to drive that kind of distance I would rather go to Oregon..

there has to be some decent option further south..more in the middle

[OC Campers]

Further south is Big Sur.  

Big Sur Campground http://www.bigsurcamp.com/rv-sites.html

Fernwood Campground http://fernwoodbigsur.com/camping-rv.html

[Azusateach]

Further south is Big Sur.  

Big Sur Campground http://www.bigsurcamp.com/rv-sites.html

This is their Quiet Time policy:

Quiet Time

It is our goal to provide a clean, quiet and friendly place for you and your family.

We are proud of our quiet time, 10pm to 8am, which we enforce more than any other place in the area.

If that sounds good to you and your family, this is the place for you!

It would never fly with our group.  Otherwise it looks like a wonderful place.

We're never going to please everyone.  I think that whoever wants to wagonmaster a meet-in-the-middle rally needs to pick the place and then stick with it.  People will come.