LOL! Thanks, everyone... Suzy & I have no intention whatsoever of buying into the membership... we're just going for the free stuff. The part that I'm most interested in is the 20 days free camping that they give you just for showing up, and you have a year to use them. We live full-time in Strawberry (Central Arizona) and have friends over in SoCal, so the location is perfect for a mid-way overnight on these trips.
Frankly, I doesn't bother me a bit what some guy in a bus that costs more than my house thinks about me or my 16-year old pop-up... if I cared any less, I'd be caring backwards! Anyway, my idea of camping doesn't have anything to do with a leather couch or satellite TV.
I was mostly hoping that someone might have some first-hand knowledge of either of these places, just so we know whether or not they're even worth the trouble. The $100 gas certificate will more than cover the cost of the trip over and back, and we can always use another Android device... it's really the free camping with hook-ups that's got my attention. We've never camped anywhere except at large, in undeveloped areas, and it just seems like it would be kinda neat on these trips out to the coast and back to have a place we could could just wheel into - for FREE - and not have to worry about hauling water or firing up the generator, at least for that one night and the following morning.
I'm guessing that unless someone tells me that the place is on an active earthquake fault line, or that there's been a recent sighting of a wanted axe murderer in the area, we'll probably just go ahead and sit through the presentation, watching the clock and thinking of as many ways as possible to say "No" in one word or less, then grab the freebies and split. I'll come back here to the forum with an update when we're back home, probably around November 8th... or maybe even earlier if that Android device actually works!
