{"id":3513,"date":"2019-07-04T01:20:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T01:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2019-07-04T01:20:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T01:20:48","slug":"july-3-concrete-to-la-conner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/?p=3513","title":{"rendered":"July 3 Concrete to La Conner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning, as we prepared to depart\nfrom Grandy Creek TT in Concrete, RV sharks were skulking about our\ntrailer space. They had noted that our prominently displayed\nregistration form clearly showed our departure date as today and, By\nGod!, they were going to have our little gravel driveway. Some hid\nbehind vegetation with their massive RV&#8217;s, their passengers peering\naround the thicket edges to see if we were on our way out. Others\ncircled in a crazy musical chairs game, hoping to be in the exact\nright spot once we hooked up, shifted into drive and stepped on the\naccelerator. Our RV space for the last ten days was ultimately\nclaimed by a skinny, expensive-looking shrew and her gormless worm\nmale counterpart who, yesterday, had explained to me all the rules\nregarding not saving spaces for anybody other than them and how they\nwere the most deserving to replace us when we left. She did most of\nthe talking; he mostly nodded, looked morose and mumbled falsehoods\nthat TT had overbooked the park. It seems that Grandy Creek is quite\npopular in the summer, particularly during weekends and this is 4<sup>th<\/sup>\nof July weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tWe would love to return to Grandy\nCreek for a three week visit again this summer but I was clumsy and\ntardy pursuing our reservations and the only consecutive blocks of\ndays we can get there in the near future are limited to stays of\nMonday to Friday, only, through the end of August. We will probably\nbe in another part of the world by then. I will try to be sharper\nnext time. Grandy Creek is a very pretty campground, it has full\nhookups, phones work, there is WiFi available, there are good\nrestaurants and expensive shopping nearby, spaces are ample and the\nplace is surrounded by extraordinary scenery. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tFrom Grandy Creek we jumped onto WA-20\nwestbound and headed down the Skagit River through Sedro Woolley and\nBurlington before emerging on the west side of I-5. Shortly\nthereafter, we turned southwest on some two-lane farm roads until we\npulled into La Conner. There is a Thousand Trails campground there\nbut, since we don&#8217;t like that campground and the place was booked, we\nchose instead to stay at the La Conner Marina RV Park. It costs $39 a\nnight and TT would have been free but we prefer the marina. Best of\nall, tomorrow the 4<sup>th<\/sup> of July fireworks are to be fired\nfrom, you guessed it, the La Conner Marina. We won&#8217;t be driving\nanywhere to see the show. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tThis small park (68 spaces) has full\nhookups, decent sized diagonal parallel spaces with little strips of\nnearly dead grass between them, great satellite TV reception, an\nalleged laundry which we have been unable to find, a truly\nextraordinary assortment of nearby girl-delighting shopping venues\nand it is fairly quiet although many of the guys towing boats around\nthe marina on the adjacent roads seem to have faulty mufflers. I sure\nit will quiet down tonight but I think that tomorrow night sleeping\nmight be problematic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, as we prepared to depart from Grandy Creek TT in Concrete, RV sharks were skulking about our trailer space. 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