This morning, as we prepared to depart from Grandy Creek TT in Concrete, RV sharks were skulking about our trailer space. They had noted that our prominently displayed registration form clearly showed our departure date as today and, By God!, they were going to have our little gravel driveway. Some hid behind vegetation with their massive RV’s, their passengers peering around the thicket edges to see if we were on our way out. Others circled in a crazy musical chairs game, hoping to be in the exact right spot once we hooked up, shifted into drive and stepped on the accelerator. Our RV space for the last ten days was ultimately claimed by a skinny, expensive-looking shrew and her gormless worm male counterpart who, yesterday, had explained to me all the rules regarding not saving spaces for anybody other than them and how they were the most deserving to replace us when we left. She did most of the talking; he mostly nodded, looked morose and mumbled falsehoods that TT had overbooked the park. It seems that Grandy Creek is quite popular in the summer, particularly during weekends and this is 4th of July weekend.
We would love to return to Grandy Creek for a three week visit again this summer but I was clumsy and tardy pursuing our reservations and the only consecutive blocks of days we can get there in the near future are limited to stays of Monday to Friday, only, through the end of August. We will probably be in another part of the world by then. I will try to be sharper next time. Grandy Creek is a very pretty campground, it has full hookups, phones work, there is WiFi available, there are good restaurants and expensive shopping nearby, spaces are ample and the place is surrounded by extraordinary scenery.
From Grandy Creek we jumped onto WA-20 westbound and headed down the Skagit River through Sedro Woolley and Burlington before emerging on the west side of I-5. Shortly thereafter, we turned southwest on some two-lane farm roads until we pulled into La Conner. There is a Thousand Trails campground there but, since we don’t like that campground and the place was booked, we chose instead to stay at the La Conner Marina RV Park. It costs $39 a night and TT would have been free but we prefer the marina. Best of all, tomorrow the 4th of July fireworks are to be fired from, you guessed it, the La Conner Marina. We won’t be driving anywhere to see the show.
This small park (68 spaces) has full hookups, decent sized diagonal parallel spaces with little strips of nearly dead grass between them, great satellite TV reception, an alleged laundry which we have been unable to find, a truly extraordinary assortment of nearby girl-delighting shopping venues and it is fairly quiet although many of the guys towing boats around the marina on the adjacent roads seem to have faulty mufflers. I sure it will quiet down tonight but I think that tomorrow night sleeping might be problematic.