Posted by rustyj14 (My Page) on Sun, May 15, 05 at 12:25 I have plans for various things to build for camping, which i give freely to anybody who asks for them! BUT!! I must have an e-mail address for me to send them! I do not have the mental capacity to figure out how to send them any other way except by e-mail!! Or "snail-mail!" I will NOT use your e-mail address for any other purpose, I will NOT sell, give, convey, or get you involved in any nefarious scheme to take away anything from you! I am only interested in helping fellow campers! by: Rustyj14 Wow, I thought you had asked for people to email you about this stuff,,

My first DH and I starting camping when our son was about four. My husband bought a used van and we remodeled the inside and used it as our camper. Then we had to chance to buy a VW camper that had never been camped in so we bought it and sold the van. We used that for about a year. It had absolutely no power to climb mountains so we ended up selling it and started tent camping. When our son was nine, some friends that moved here from the NW talked us into sewing/building a teepee. That was quite an experience but the end result was some wonderful years of primitive camping, good times and great memories. After DH died, I passed the teepee along to our son and he still alternates between using it and tent camping. It's been 31 years since DH and I made it. I remarried and my current DH had one of the old VW campers when we married and we sold it a few years ago and bought a Class C motorhome with a slide. We've also got a two room tent that we keep on hand in case of family/friends over flow when we're camping. We've camped up to three months at a time. For the most part, I don't mind the cooking or camp clean up. Packing and unpacking is certainly not as tedious with the motorhome but the yearly maintenance & insurance can sure be a budget crunch. We keep threatening to sell it and go back to tent camping or a small travel trailer. I certainly don't see us giving up camping because we enjoy it too much to not do it. We've made a lot of great memories while camping and had some wonderful and awesome experiences that we may never have had otherwise. That's not to say that we don't enjoy trips and nice hotels because we do and most of those trips have been memorable in their own way. Thinking now...we may just be wanderers and adventurers at heart but we're the happiest with mother nature surrounding us.

This past weekend I camped at Vail Lake resort, which is out by Temecula. It was nice (toilets, showers, close enough to town if you forgot something). Also, the Temecula wineries are close. It is a little more "desert-y" than mountains and forests, but it was really nice. Here is a link that might be useful: Vail Lake

@Localeater, Yes, I've been on Outdoorsy and RVShare. There are quite a few locally, but some do not allow music festivals. IDK if they could drop something off there, but I could also search at the destination site. @summersrhythm_z6a, thanks so much. We have no experience driving a larger vehicle or towing, so I am thinking the class B is a better size for us to manage. I realize 4 nights could be a lot. But most of the day we will be at the festival. I've got so much grading to do, but maybe we can work on this over the weekend. Oh well, we have the concert tickets, the hotel, and lockers, and I think car parking. They keep announcing new bands every day, so it is getting a little exciting, thinking about going somewhere again. That this is in driving distance is good vs. having to book a flight.