We had a plan for the next three days. We were going to drive a long way today to reach Frankfurt, visit Frankfurt tomorrow, and possibly meet our friends Tracey and Tony on Sunday.

The first part of the plan involved a 450 kilometer drive on the autobahn that I figured would take about 5 hours. Despite some construction, that part of the plan came off almost to the minute as we pulled into the campground after 5 hours and 2 minutes.

Then the plan came unraveled. We travel in shoulder season so if a campground is open they usually have plenty of spots. The last two stops we stayed in gigantic campgrounds that could hold hundreds of RV’s, and there were less than 20 people staying at both of them. So I was shocked when we rolled into the campground near Frankfurt and was told they had no places for the weekend. This is the first time in 4 years that we were turned away at a campground.

We spent the next 1/2 hour trying to find another campground that was open near Frankfurt without success. I even took a look for a hotel, but François is not very hotel parking lot friendly. Ton finally came up with a campground that google said was near us. When I put it into Greta Garmin she said it was 46 kilometers from where we were. I gave the campground a call and they were open and had plenty of spots, so we were off.

45 minutes later we rolled into our new campground and of 40 spots available we make the third camper, so there are plenty of spots available. It is a nice campground on a lake, but it is quite a way out in the country. I checked on getting into Frankfurt by public transport and it would take 2 hours each way so that is not going to happen.

We took another look at hotels, but none of them seemed feasible. So we reluctantly decided that Frankfurt would have to wait. We sent an email to Tracey and Tony apologizing. Tomorrow we are going to continue west and our new plan is to stop in Bonn on the way. I emailed the campground we want to stay at so hopefully we will not repeat today’s events.
