Air Force comes to our rescue!

Saturday, 13 October.  Reporting from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), near Lompoc, CA…not far from Santa Barbara.  Arrived here today after a short ride down 101 from Morgan Hill.  We had gotten so tired of the rain and mud at the TT campground near Morgan Hill that we decided to move up our departure date, and, as they used to say in the Wild West, “Get the hell out of Dodge.”  Our campsite at Morgan Hill had become quite a quagmire after that awful hail storm of last week; we even had to make a short hop from the motorhome to dry land just to get out of the RV.  Anyway, we decided to head to our next destination, the TT campground at Rancho Oso, in the hills above Santa Barbara.  However, we found two recent Internet posts that discussed the rough, and maybe slightly dangerous, road up to the campground – especially in a large rig and towing a vehicle.  That brought about an instant decision to look for somewhere else to park our rig for a few days.  In a campground search on the Internet Lynette found that VAFB had a Family Camp that offered camping sites for motorhomes; after checking out their website and the photos, it looked like a good option.  Turns out, it’s also very close (30 minutes) to Solvang, one of our sightseeing destinations, so we took off down 101 headed to our new campground.  BTW, VAFB is home to the 30^th Space Wing and 14^th Air Force, and is Air Force Space Command’s premier missile base.  It’s the only installation in the free world where operational ICBMs and polar-orbiting space satellites are launched.  For more info go to: http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/.

The Fam-Camp at VAFB  (photo above) is relatively small, but very nice.  Each site has 50-amp service and full hook-ups – something we haven’t been used to lately, and a welcome occurrence. We have plenty of shade and full satellite TV service.  All this for only $22 a night – what a bargain!