San Diego is the only place we've ever used a Wally Mart parking lot.

I believe that there is a lot of camping in the mountains east of SD.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Grunthaner" <FrankGRUN@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: Camping in San Diego?

> Not clear to me that there are any nice camping sites in metro San Diego.
We
> have stayed at Campland by the Bay, for something higher than $60 per day
> (your own stretch of parking lot with 6 feet clear on either side of the
> Vanagon. At least there were toilets!
>
> As the worst rip-off I have ever encountered, the De Anza Resort,
Campground,
> hell hole ... $60 for a parking space in a pile of cluttered debris from
old
> rusted trailers, complete with a construction site toilet.
>
> My advice, San Diego is not for camping. Stay at a private home, park at a
> motel or go up to any of the excellent sites outside metro SD.
>
> Oh, yeh, for a quite friendly place that is an upgrade from the De Anza
> Resort, try the police station parking lot or the local hospital.
>
> Frank Grunthaner