Due to our recent discovery that one of\nthe campgrounds we had on our list of confirmed reservations is a\ncull, we recently reconfigured our schedule to stay on the coast of\nthe Pacific Northwest. We were reluctant to leave the fabulous, cool\nweather here and proceed into more arid and infernal climes merely\nbecause one of our campsites albeit 21 days’ worth, turned ugly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the idiosyncrasies of our rejiggered schedule is that we left La Conner Marina RV and went to Mount Vernon TT in Bow, WA, a week ago. Today we returned to the town of La Conner but this time we checked into the La Conner Thousand Trails campground, not one of my favorites. It is a big place with hundreds of RV spaces and there is ample brush and trees such that we really are isolated from our adjacent neighbors and it is mostly quiet. There is no WiFi, no normal TV reception, no satellite TV reception and no sewer hookups. The roads are very narrow with large, staggered second-growth trees making passage through the park with our trailer serpentine in order to avoid roof and wall collisions with the big, recently-skinned firs, cedars and spruces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tHowever, it is free for us, they have\nsatisfactory restrooms and the park is bordering Haro Strait and the\nSalish Sea. The Salish Sea is called by everyone I know the Strait of\nJuan de Fuca. Without Google Maps it is Juan de Fuca. There is good\nfood and shopping close by and the scenery is fabulous. It is about\nas far as we could be on the west end of the Skagit Valley. To go any\nfurther west, we have to drive onto Fidalgo Island where we can find\nthe city of Anacortes and ferries to the San Juan Islands and\nVictoria, BC, Canada. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tStrangely, we pulled into exactly the\nsame RV space we had when we were here a couple years ago. We don’t\nknow how that happened but are mostly satisfied. Visits in previous\nyears were short so we didn’t need a sewer hookup, instead using the\ndump station at the park exit. This year we want to stay a week so I\nqueried the staff about a honey wagon service. The park rep at the\ngate indicated that the honey wagon is only available on Tuesdays,\nwhich will do us no good because our tanks, which are perfectly\nadequate for four or five days, will fill up on Thursday or 5 days\nfrom now. I am quite reluctant to load all our outside seating and\nbarbecue, disconnect from water and power, stow said equipment, hook\nthe trailer to the truck, pull the trailer to the dump station and\nempty the tanks, pull the trailer back through the serpentine roads,\nsqueeze the trailer back between the myriad trees into our RV spot,\nget out our utility hoses and cords and re-connect the trailer to the\nshore facilities only to pull out a couple days later to repeat the\nprocedure upon our departure. We’ll figure out something. We can’t\nallow these park goons to dictate our schedule so we will try\nsomething creative. Just to spite them, I’m going to poop in their\nrestrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Due to our recent discovery that one of the campgrounds we had on our list of confirmed reservations is a cull, we recently reconfigured our schedule to stay on the coast of the Pacific Northwest. We were reluctant to leave … Continue reading