My favorite Thousand Trails campground is Grandy Creek in Concrete, WA, despite having been to almost every one of their facilities in the nation. Fortunately for me, today was a travel day and we left Blaine and took the hour and a half drive south to Concrete where we are scheduled to spend the next thirteen days. Other folks must enjoy this facility as well because to get a lengthy reservation here, we had to book our stay about a month or more ago.

The drive south on I-5 was pretty, uneventful and short. We got off the interstate west of Sedro Woolley and took a back road into town and then we picked up WA-20 for about a 15 mile drive up the magnificently beautiful Skagit River. Cleverly, we arrived right at the earliest time we could check in. Once inside, it looked like we were going to have to initially select a site without a sewer hookup but my sharp-eyed spouse noted that one of the campers in one of the prime locations was scheduled to leave today. Peggy walked over, tagged the site and we sat down to wait an hour until the former tenant dribbled around and checked out late. He had not gone 50 feet from his site when we pulled into it. Our site isn’t one of the very few with satellite TV reception but it has good WiFi and full hookups with 50 amp power. We don’t really require 50 amps (normally 30 is ample) but here we can run our ice machine, air conditioner, microwave, 110 volt refrigerator, stereo, TV and all our lighting simultaneously without popping the breaker. We were all set up by 1:00 PM. There is a great big pooch named Charlie next door. He is gorgeous.