Erinn and James: A Thumbs Up and a Thumbs Down

Recently, some family came to visit us here on this beautiful central coast. The plan was to check out the Vintage Camper Rally in Morro Bay and see if the Airport Day at the San Luis Obispo Airport had anything fun going on. In short, the Vintage Camper Rally was disappointing and the event at the airport ended up being a lot of fun.

First, the Vintage Camper Rally was supposed to be at Morro Strand State Beach, according to VisitSanLuisObispoCounty.com. You can probably still see it written on their website here. So when we drove over there, excited to see some cool vintage RVs and trailers, and only found a sad little parking lot with a few definitely-not-vintage campers, we were pretty disappointed. We were able to find another website that said the Vintage Camper Rally was supposed to be at Morro Bay State Park, so we drove over to that campground, but were still disappointed. There were a few vintage campers, but nothing like what we were expecting, so we didn't even get out of the car. Instead, we drove back to SLO for the airport.

There were little Cessnas and big World War II planes. Helicopters and gliders. Stunt planes and commercial planes. It was very cool.

Our nephew and niece had come with us and totally loved it. They got to sit in the cockpit of lots of different planes. Once, we all got inside a big World War II transporter plane and got to see the cramped quarters of soldiers on their way to the battlefield.

We all had a lot of fun and I hope the airport will do it again sometime. After the airport, we got ribs at Mo's Smokehouse in downtown SLO for some tasty ribs, then drove to Cambria to see the scarecrows.