Well then - there go the "Annual" Camping event plans....

So last year we had this GREAT experience camping at Refugio SB. My mom drove up in an RV with her husband and his 2 granddaughters. We hooked up Poppy and drove down with another family. We had 3 sites with 12 people, and we stayed 3 nights...it was a blast and we decided to make it an annual event. Even try to draft a few more people each year...

WELL that did not work out.
Mark and I set the alarm and got up early so we could coordinate which 4 sites we were going to get....at 7:55 we had the sites all picked and all we had to do was click the "Reserve" button....we counted down the last minute and at precisely 8 am PST we clicked all four.....and we waited....and waited...and waited.....etc. It just continued to say "processing". Never even popped up to say that they were already reserved, just kept "processing"...
Finally Mark noticed that he had 1 item in his cart, and we managed to get 1 site :-(
We had drafted 1 new family, which would have raised our number to 15 (and 5 vehicles)....not going to fit on the 1 site.

At this point (8:30!) it was too late to reserve any of the other popular sites - El Cap was all booked and so was Carpenteria...Gaviota SB was open, but the reviews are not too flattering...

SO I checked Pfeiffer Big Sur (one of our fav camping spots)...and found 2 River Sites and a couple scattered other sites nearby...our usual sites were all already gone of course, but Hey, they are River sites - cannot be too bad right???
I am curious how the sites will be...there must be something less than ideal about these 2 for them to have still been open, but I will remain optimistic lol. Mark snagged another nearby site...at worst we can use it to park cars..or maybe it will make a great "time out" spot :-)
A bit later another River spot 2 over opened up so I quickly grabbed that one - I do feel sorry for the poor person/family/group stuck in between us, but maybe they will trade :-)

So it looks like the trip will be at Big Sur this year - we have 4 sites and 1 less family (mom won't drive up that far for it)...I guess we need to draft someone else :-)