The San Luis Obispo area would be a great place to have a North/South meet up...or maybe even Sequoia National Park.  We will have to get our thinking caps on and come up with a plan here.  We do live in a big state with a lot of wonderful opportunities.

I really want to do some Joshua Tree, Anza Borrego camping..  :)

Anyone in the LA area? Would love just to cruise on a nice Sunday....a little camper caravan.... Camping is totally something I want to do soon... Sequoia sounds awesome.

A camper caravan sounds great.  Maybe start or end with a potluck picnic.  I'm just east of LA.

We are in the LA area and are def up for a  weekend cruise! :) Sounds like a lot of fun! :)

we want to go with you all badly but need to get cyl head work done or else stuck on the side of the road... :(

Hello All!  The Bustaches are VERY excited to participate!  There is a slight problem with the January 14th date... we have few loyalties to sports, but one of them is to the 49ers.... And their in the playoffs for the first time in almost 10 years... AND the game is at 1:30 on Saturday.  SO, would it be possible to do it on Sunday?  Or we could meet up with you all after 4pm.  :-(D  So glad to see this group getting together!!!

Go Niners!!

We would love to meet this weekend, too, but cannot make Saturday either.  Sunday morning at 9:30/10:00 would work for us. 

even though my Echo is not up and running right :( I hope it'd be okay to meet with everyone anyway next month...

Sunday morning works better for us (plus it's more fun to cruise during the daylight when people can see us :-), but we can do Sunday too if that works for everyone better.

Looks forward to seeing you all soon!

We will be there for sure on Sunday morning. 

We'll try to make it on Saturday afternoon too, but not sure we can get up to LA in time.  We'll do our best!

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!  :-(D

I'm sorry I'll miss it. I was in SoCal with my bus during the week between Christmas and New Years.

Regarding a Norcal/Socal meet up, it's something I've been wanting to put together for a while. The largest problem is the location - it needs to be midway, and it needs enough ammenities for all types of camping. 

Just to get an idea of interest: How does everyone feel about Lake Nacimiento outside of Paso Robles?

http://www.co.monterey.ca.us/parks/nacimiento_camping3.html

Pine Knoll has showers, Eagles Ridge has group sites and showers are always walkable (admittedly a long walk).

It's midway from Norcal/Socal, it's got a lake for those who travel with kayaks on the roof, Paso Robles is nearby if you want/need stuff, and if you feel like taking the scenic route to Hwy one, it's close.

It's open from April to November. Thoughts?

-Peter

We will try to make Sunday.. prob closer to 930/10 though.. :) 

  Not sure about Saturday.. I work across the street from the Counter and really don't   want to be there on my day off or cruise in the dark... A day cruise sounds like much more fun! :)   :) Thanks Orange Crush for organizing!

Outlaws Burger in Playa Del Rey would also be a good place to meet sometime. They have ample parking which is a good thing with these buses! :)

http://outlawsrestaurant.com/

Take pics, post them here. I'd love to see some of the faces and buses behind the online personas.

-p

How did this go?

:-)  ok... I'm Pat.  radugat@hotmail.com  I live in Walnut, CA and am involved in a lot of activities at church, practice Filipino Martial Arts and even at 50+ I still want to learn how to surf.  My bus is a '79 non-deluxe Westy and her name Echo.  I've got six pics in my profile but will work on adding more. 

I wish I could've met with everyone at the first meet in MDR and/or PDR but I've got 60 psi compress. on #1 so I'm saving $$$ to replace the head(s)... It's a bummer because I LOVE driving her, especially to the beach with my wife and 3 Yorkies.

In the 70's I loved backpacking/camping in the Sierras with the church youth group.  They carted us around in a VW bus.  Maybe that's where the desire came from. 

So, I "sold" my wife on the idea of getting one by renting a Westy from Bill at Vintage Surfari (Honu Li'u) for her birthday week.  On the last rental day we woke up with the surfers riding waves at South Carlsbad SB.  It was a brisk, sunny morning having breakfast and coffee off the burners with pop-top up.  Cleaned up the fire pit and headed for our last destination which was in the snow at Julian so that we could pick up a few apple pies.  We returned My wife loved it so much that by the time we got back home in our car she said "We're getting a bus!" even before I turned off the car.

Hi, I live in Los Osos, and have camping with the Camper Family. I am looking for some campers closer to my area to camp with also.

Robert from Mojave, CA  bajaman73@gmail.com I have a 72 Transporter. No name yet :( Also have a 73 Baja (aka Booger) that we play with in the desert and go camping. I'll figure out how to put pics in my gallery.