Downtown La Conner

The activity for yesterday was to walk around the town of La Conner. It is a quaint little town filled with antique shops, restaurants and curio shops. Once again, it brought back the memories we had of the last time we walked through town about 17 years ago. The town is noted – aside from its proximity to the Tulip fields – for being a popular tourist destination during the Tulip Festival and all summer long. The main landmark is the Rainbow Bridge on the south end of town and the route we take from the Thousand Trails preserve to town:

 

We parked at the edge of town and took this shot of the popular downtown area:

 

The shops along one side of the street all back up to the Swinomish Channel. Here, you can see the Rainbow Bridge and the small harbor from the small alcoves between the shops along 1^st St:

 

Most of the town was just as we remembered except for the normal changes in businesses along the street. One of the stops we had to make was at the La Conner Post Office on this street to pick up our mail which we had sent to General Delivery. Our mail was there as we had hoped and our final paychecks from Spring Training were inside which made us happy.

We then went to Anacortes which is about 12 miles from La Conner to stop at the Safeway store and drive around the area to see the homes and get information on that town. Anacortes is where you catch the Ferries to the San Juan Islands and to Victoria, B.C. We have also taken those trips on a few occasions and is another reason we like this area so much.

Between Anacortes and La Conner there is an Indian Reservation- Swinomish Tribe – that contains…. a Casino! Of course we had to stop and check that out. We picked up club cards there to add to our massive collection of club cards from casinos all over the country and played for a short time before heading back to our rig. We only played a small stake since we didn’t care much for the slots in this casino. We didn’t win, but we also didn’t play that much.

We had our “honey wagon” visit yesterday morning so our holding tanks are on empty once again for the next week. Our schedule today will probably include a visit to the other nearby towns of Mt Vernon and Burlington which are about 15 miles from La Conner. Those towns contain all the big name stores like Costco and the Malls. The rain has returned so we are glad that we did our outside activities the last two days. I believe the forecast is for this rain to stay around for at least the next couple days…