White Elephants & Camping

[joeychen]

Excellent weekend, thank you fellow bitches, you're the best!
Although, the familiar refrain did come up several times - "ohhh, I think I ate too much..."
White elephant sale scores:
*3 bag handles
*a book on macrame
*some little braiding craft kit
*some Cranes paper and 2 envelopes, in a nice clear plastic container
*a pair of sunnies - which I have realised too late are crap and scratched. Oh well.

I have something new to organise/plan, yay! - A California Glitter camping trip (all Glitterati welcome of course, -->Karen!) that would be in between SF and LA.
I think early summer might be good, so we can get a reservation (or alternatively late summer)
Anyone have any campground suggestions?
I looked at a few websites for houses for rent in Morro Bay, and SLO, but they seemed kinda expensive. None of the caravan parks in SLO had rental caravans either.
Just bought a tent at Costco. It was on the weekly coupon special so was only $33. It looks really nice, is 9'x9' inside.

Comments

[resurgam.livejournal.com]

yay! sounds like fun!

[jangrl.livejournal.com]

thank you for planning this! woohoo!
oh! a friend told me of cheap, nice condos up in mammoth. is that far from where you are? should i ask her for the info?

jangrl. :)

[joeychen.livejournal.com]

Mammoth is kinda do-able. (grrr, don't have my maps here) From SF we would need to either drive north of, or through Yosemite. Mr jo and I have driven north of, ending up in Bridgeport. I think it took a fair while - 6 hours? Then another hour to get to Mammoth. But there are lots of cool things to do there - Bodie, Mono Lake, etc
I need to check into this time share kind of thing my parents have, they can transfer it to me, but I think there's a limit on how many guests I can bring. It's in Sequioa National Forest, north of Kernville.

[zylle-blue.livejournal.com]

oh lovely!

[monkeyhouse.livejournal.com]

how about Big Sur?

[joeychen.livejournal.com]

San Louis Obisbo and Morro Bay area came up as well. pot_t_mouth said she has some suggestions - cough em up girl!
Coast or inland? Inland can still have water with streams/lakes.

[monkeyhouse.livejournal.com]

i had looked into a bunch of different places for a big sur vacation - on the big sur chamber of commerce (http://www.bigsurcalifornia.com) website, they have links to lodging and camping sites. i s'pose if you get a group of people together, the cabins and campsites are pretty affordable...

[queen-puff-puff.livejournal.com]

I second the Big Sur suggestion. I was there once and it was beautiful!

[jangrl.livejournal.com]

i checked distance and travel time through yahoo maps, and morro bay is almost exactly in between la and sf (off by about 20 miles!) and it's only 3.5 hours from each city!

jangrl. :)

Umm.

[pot-t-mouth.livejournal.com]

I like Morro bay. Are we gonna rent a house or camp? I was trying to do more research, but the f*ckers are actually making me work today. Maybe tonight.

Re: Umm.

[jangrl.livejournal.com]

i think there are campgrounds by morro bay. ooh, camp by the beach...how dreamy!

jangrl. :)

[joeychen.livejournal.com]

Haha! KNow what you mean! I looked at some Morro bay houses, they seemed kinda pricey, and none were super big. Still, we could just do the sneak a lot of people in thing.
KNow of any places in the mountains, like Sierra or Sequioa forests?

[pot-t-mouth.livejournal.com]

I posted one on my LJ, it is huge, and it will cost more than Sea Ranch, but I think we can fit 15 smushed in & 12 comfortably. Check it out!

[monkeyhouse.livejournal.com]

ooooo, king's canyon is nice for camping, all them big ol' trees and such...

[kickarse.livejournal.com]

I vote LATE SUMMER LATE SUMMER LATE SUMMER!!! I want to come too! (I'm going to Cali in April and May for family stuff so if it's later I'll have more time to save up.) But you guys should have it whenever. But I still want to come. Yeah.