La Conner Washington
Aug 30th to Sept 3rd 2007 We left Lost Lake Resort after having stayed there under our Coast to Coast membership. We had visited a booth at the FMCA rally that was hawking memberships in Thousand Trail RV Parks. Thousand Trails is a membership program that we may be interested in for the future but it is still our intent to give ourselves a year before we commit to an expensive membership program. Thousand Trails is big in the Northwest, fairly big in all of the West but is a little weak in the Southwest, Midwest, and until recently the East. Since we were going to be around the Northwest until late October we decided to see what they had to offer. After visiting with them a bit at their booth we were invited to accept a 3 night four day stay at one of their premier resort parks at La Conner and for listening to their pitch we would be their guests for free. We were asked what days we would like to come and we selected Sept, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, leaving on the 4th. They also had a Las Vegas type wheel to spin for a prize that would be awarded to you if in fact you kept your appointment with them. I spun the wheel and hit the top prize. A 30 day free membership in Thousand Trails.
We have sat through their presentation and it was given by a young fellow who was very professional and not high pressure at all. At the end of the presentation we let him know that we were going to stay true to our original plan to not buy in to any program for at least a year and in that time we would continue to evaluate our options. Our 30 day free membership was activated and we have one year within to use it. When we make our first reservation it will begin and then for 30 consecutive days we can stay in Thousand Trail parks FREE. We are actually going to activate our 30 days on the 6th of Sept and will jump from Park to Park in the Northwest area as we continue to explore Washington and Oregon. We will actually only get about 25 free days out of it as we are coming back to La Crosse the first week in October for Kathleen's follow up medical appointments. There are some outstanding Thousand Trails Parks that we are looking forward to visiting in the next month. We will try and give our impression of each park and add photo's as we take them. The best part of course is we will not have any park expenses for most of the month and that is going to be good for the budget.
This Thousand Trails Park that we are in now is situated directly on a half-mile beach along the Puget Sound, at Skagit Bay. The 111 acre La Conner Park is in the heart of the beautiful Skagit Valley. La Conner is a picturesque park, with approximately 325 sites for RV's and camping trailers. To the west lies the natural beauty of the San Juan Islands, and just 5 minutes away is the historic fishing village of La Conner. It reminds us very much of Mc Gregor Iowa on Steroids.
We have some tentative plans that when we leave here we will spend a few days at the Mount Vernon Preserve, Thousand Trails Park, and will then head up to the very Northwest corner of Washington to Blain and put in at the Birch Bay Resort. From there we will try to fit a stop in to Leavenworth Preserve Thousand Trails Park over a week-end so the kids can come and join us and the little ones can enjoy the Pool and play areas. Then we will complete the month of September by going back over on the Washington Coast and visiting several more Thousand Trail Parks. Perhaps the kids will drive over and join us there as it is only a couple hours drive from their homes.
It should be no secret, we love being by the water!
