Winter TREK Rally at Lazydays

We departed Blue Spring State Park about 1:00PM after leisurely packing and long good byes to our friends. We would see our TREK friends again in a few hours, but would not see Wayne and Lynda again until April, when we will do a paddling trip with them in the Missouri Ozarks. We arrived at Lazydays RV Campground (formerly Rally Park) near Tampa a few hours later. We checked in and were quickly parked and settled. We took Matilda to the Mango Dog Park for a romp, then walked over to the Crown Club for happy hour. Life remains good.

This park is a familiar and comfortable home to us. It is clean, pet friendly, has full hookups, includes cable and wi-fi, and they bring you the local newspaper each morning. One can also eat breakfast and lunch at the Cafe (if one is not fortunate enough to belong to the Crown Club). It is close to a good dog park, the Hillsborough River and Busch Gardens. It is adjacent to Lazydays RV Center, the largest single-site RV dealership in the universe, where all the RVs are unlocked and you can browse all day long without ever seeing a salesman. It is here three years ago that we bought our Country Coach and were introduced to the Crown Club. When we bought our coach they gave us 20 coupons for free nights at this park. We still have eight coupons left, so we will certainly be back, at least for eight more nights.

On Thursday the winter rally of the South East TREK Fun Club kicked off. We learned that almost 50 coaches were in attendance. Most attendees still own their TREKs, but a few, like us have traded to SOBs (some other brand). The TREK club is pretty liberal in their policy to let former TREK owners stay in the club even when they now have another coach or even no coach at all. Some clubs will kick you out when you change brands. The Fleetwood MotorHome Association was also having a rally at the park. They had over 200 coaches attending their rally, and the TREK club got stepped on a bit regarding the use of the rally facilities. We were shoved into various corners and did not have full use of the facilities for which we had paid. Our folks were not happy with the situation, and if we come back to this venue next year, I hope we can get assurances that this problem will not occur again. There are just too many good rally venues to put up with this abuse. I was careful not to be too vocal with my criticism lest I be called upon to plan and host the next rally!

We saw many old friends and made a few new friends. It ended all too quickly. But now we are off to the Florida Keys!!!