Brandy524

Officially it’s called the 127 Corridor Sale, but it’s the World’s Longest Yard Sale. It officially starts in Gadsden, Alabama (my town) and runs for 654 miles to West Unity, Ohio. Pretty impressive for that many people to have that much junk to sell, huh? Here’s the website: http://127sale.com/ Should I be proud to say that this lovely spectacle of junk begins in my town, about five miles away from my house? I mean, it puts little ol’ Gadsden, Alabama on the map, so to speak. We were on HGTV for crying out loud! That says something, right? Maybe not necessarily something we should be proud of, though. Hmmmm…. Anyway, I know not everyone is blessed to live in the South, or along the sale route, so I thought I would be so kind and post a few pictures. But let me warn you, they’re not very exciting. There are a lot of just traffic. So officially the sale begins at Noccalula Falls Park (Gadsden’s only tourist attraction; I may do a trip report for it soon). There are lots of vendors in the parking lot there, and then the sale winds up Tabor Road for miles and miles. These first two pictures are from the Falls. World’s Longest “Outdoor” Sale. Not sure why they changed the sign from “yard sale.” Is yard sale an offensive term? Is anyone here offended by my saying yard sale? I’m not sure if you can read the yellow signs or not, but they say “It’s Only $1.00!” That’s probably because they know it’s all worthless junk. “Hey you’re getting a deal, it’s only a $1.00. It’ll probably break as soon as you get it home, but who cares, it was only $1.00!” There were actually several of these places with the boxes of junk lined up like this. I think they get all this junk wholesale or something. This is the turn down Tabor Road where all the traffic is usually lined up. We went later on in the afternoon when the traffic had started to thin out. The morning is always horrible. Here’s a series of traffic shots, in no particular order. This one is not too bad. Note the cars lined up on the side of the road. Parking is always a nightmare. And yet another line of traffic. People come from all over for this sale. I swear, I would not take a vacation to drive across the country just for a yard sale. If it weren’t one road over from my house I wouldn’t even bother. We actually saw a van with a California tag pulling out of a gas station in front of us, but I didn’t get the camera out fast enough to take a picture. Most of the houses along the route have these beautiful caution tapes circling their yard to keep people from parking. “Arg, stay off my yard!” I don’t know why I made them talk like a pirate. Here's a horse-drawn cart sitting on a trailer. There wasn’t a for sale sign on it. I’m not sure why it was there. But what good is a horse-drawn cart with no horses? There are these big open field areas where lots of vendors set up shop. This was one of them. We only stopped at these places because it’s too hard to get two kids out of the car, so we weren’t about to do it for just one vendor. Here’s another big sale spot. Can I interest anyone in a port-a-potty? These were stationed all over the place. We actually saw people in line to use them. Just imagine, the temperature down here was in the 90s, people had been using them all day…I shudder to think. Check out my little diva with her sunglasses on her head. This is Ally. Poor Cammy’s sunglasses kept sliding off her nose. This car, though I have no idea what kind or what year, was $35,000. Please tell me who is going to buy a car for $35,000 at a yard sale. Can anyone tell what kind of car this is? I really have no idea. It’s nice though. Not $35,000 nice. Here are some beautiful, high quality flowerpots made from old tires. Aren’t you just dying to make a trip to Alabama to purchase one of these? This would make the trip completely worth it. And they slap the A on there because Alabama fans will buy anything that has the A on it, right? We only bought two things, and no, these flowerpots were not one of them. We bought an antique bed to put in the girls’ room, and a broom from the Lions Club. We had to squeeze the bed into the back seat, which sort of put the girls in prison. And here is my husband, Danny, doing the driving. And I leave you with a picture of myself. I hate taking pictures of myself because I have short arms and the pictures always look bad that close. But short arms be damned, here you go. I hope you enjoyed our “trip” to the longest overpriced junk spectacular. If you want to see this in person it’s always the second weekend of August!

I love seeing pics of the parks over there, because I know I'll probably never make it over to visit any of them. They look great though!

That's so cool that you have a show! I'm actually talking to the guy in Alabama that has one and trying to work out a day to drive down and see his show. I was amazed to find out these still existed. Whenever we make it down there I'll have to do a trip report for y'all!

Wow, they really do exist! You should take a picture. I've never seen a red one before.

Here's another reply. Awesome pictures! Glad to see you had fun. Congrats on winning the camera!

Glad to hear y'all are okay! Sounds like it would be pretty scary. The only one I've ever been in was the small one we had in Alabama in 2003 and it was pretty scary itself. I couldn't imagine a big one.

Ha...I was thinking along the same lines but didn't want to be that blunt about it.

So the kids are 15, 14 and 11? And them plus the dad was over 900 lbs.? Something is wrong with this picture.

Your captions and pictures are hilarious! It looks like you had a lot of fun!

I wish I had known when y'all were at Lake Winnie and my husband and I could've met up with y'all. I've never been and have been begging him to take me. It looks like y'all had a lot of fun. Great pics!

Wow. Seriously, just wow. Blown away. Easily the best superhero/comic book movie ever. If Heath Ledger is not nominated for an Oscar there will be a lot of angry people.

I am starting to feel a little woozy from my cough syrup. Glad I don't have to drive home from work for another hour and a half!

Oh my! I bet she's a very interesting character. That would have been hilarious. I could just imagine the guy's reaction to that!

Yeah, most 12-year-olds do not typically have heart attacks. And anyone so young would most likely know of any pre-existing heart conditions. Now if she knew she had a heart condition and went on the ride anyway, then it's her fault for not following the warnings. But if she didn't know of any heart problems, then I wonder what would have caused someone so young to have a heart attack? Surely the coaster isn't that frightening!

Yeah, that wheelchair sign almost had me laughing out loud. That looks like a really nice zoo. And it looks like y'all had a lot of fun!

Wow, I feel so honored that you guys found me entertaining! And for both Alveys to post in it...what a way to welcome a newcomer!

Y'all don't hold me to this color thing because I really have no idea! That's just what I've heard. As for the shoes question, I felt like once they learned to walk (granted never in the store) they needed shoes on, just because they weren't really infants anymore, more like toddlers. Now my husband would probably have the same reaction that Robb did, that she's a baby, and she's not walking in the store so it doesn't matter. I guess dads don't really worry about appearances as much as moms do.

Thanks for the edit!

Oh, I've done Wal-Mart late at night with a fart machine. Let me tell you that was an interesting trip! I like Target too, although they're a little more expensive. But we don't have one locally, so it's a special trip only thing.

My husband and I used to love to go to Wal-Mart at like 2 a.m. when there was no one there. But that was before we had kids.

See, I figured there would be people that would be all "boo Wal-Mart, down with corporate America." But I can get better deals at Wal-Mart, and with trying to feed a family of four, not to mention having to buy diapers, pull-ups, etc., I have to look for deals.

I haven’t been a member here long, and I wanted to do a trip report to kind of establish my presence. But I won’t be going to a park until September. Well, yesterday I had to make my weekly Wal-Mart run, and I just so happened to have my camera in my purse, so I thought I would attempt to entertain y’all a little. I tried to resize the pictures on photobucket, but they still ended up being bigger than I wanted. Sorry. I tried not to be too obvious in taking pictures because I didn’t want to look completely crazy. But I probably ended up making myself look like a shoplifter by covertly snapping pictures and digging around in my purse for my camera. Oh well. Here we are. I’ve heard, granted not from a very reliable source, but I’ve heard that there are three different colors of Wal-Mart Supercenters: Green is the smallest, Blue is medium, and Red is the largest. I’ve never seen a red Wal-Mart. Maybe it’s like some mythological creature…the elusive red Wal-Mart. Anyway, the one we’re visiting today is green, and is the smaller of our two area Wal-Marts. We have a blue one too! Note the time, 6:10. I am very good at going in, getting what I need, and getting out in record time. Unless I have time to spare, in which case I like to browse and end up buying more than I should. But that was not the situation on this visit. I look awful serious for a trip to Wal-Mart. I had my babies with me. Me and the girls often make trips to stores by ourselves because my husband works funky shifts. He’s on 2nd shift this week, so we’re on our own. Here’s the obligatory baby shots: This is Cammy, my youngest. And this is Ally, the oldest. They’re actually only 13 months apart. No, we didn’t plan to have them that close. Moving on… Our first stop was pull-ups because I have a two-year-old who is in the midst of potty training. Fascinating, I know. Okay, I did something really redneck-y, I took my kids to Wal-Mart barefoot. I didn’t mean to, but being the scatterbrain that I am I forgot to pack shoes for them when I took them to my parents’ house yesterday, so when I went to pick them after work to go straight to Wal-Mart they had no shoes. When something redneck-y happens my husband usually starts humming Turkey in the Straw, so feel free to hum it to yourself. Funny story, as I was looking down taking the picture of her feet I wasn’t paying attention to where I was pushing and I ran straight into a stack of cases of beer. I quickly looked around to see if anyone saw me. Luckily I didn’t bump it hard enough to knock it over or anything. That would’ve been embarrassing. We had to get juice because girls drink it like crazy. Aren’t you just enthralled? I think this picture was an accident. SPAM! We just happened to walk by so I snapped a picture, although we would not be partaking of any spammy goodness ourselves. Yuck. Ally is running out of room. The buggy is getting full. And yes, I said “buggy.” I’m from the south, it’s not a “shopping cart” it’s a “buggy.” Deal with it. I think this one was an accident too. I KNOW this one was an accident. The meat section. This was just after I had picked up a package of pork chops and they were juicy and my hand was germy for the rest of the trip. And then my phone proceeded to ring so I had to answer it with juicy hands. Mmmmm, germy, meat juice phone. This is what happens when you leave your camera on inside your purse. I had to put the meat down here so the girls didn’t get germy meat juice on their hands. Heading towards the registers, we’re almost done! We went to number 5, where the lady working proceeded to tell me all about her grandchildren. I had a coupon for the pull-ups. And just so you know, it’s pronounced “cue-pahn.” Any other pronunciation is just wrong. The parking lot. This is such a thrilling experience, I know. Ally barely had room in the buggy with all the bags. But she’s smiling anyway! Note the time again, 6:46. I managed to get in, get everything on my list (enough food to cook for the next four days), and get out in 36 minutes. And with two toddlers no less! I told you I was good. We’re done…happy me! Well, there you have it. A fascinating look at my weekly grocery shopping trip. I know you’re just beside yourself with excitement at this point. I will have an actual park report come September, although it may not be as terribly entertaining as this report was.

Everyone may not find it hard to tolerate, but some that are easily prone to motion sickness might. I've read (I forget where) that a big cause of motion sickness is when your eyes see that you're moving, but you can't feel it. It messes with your equilibrium. So with those big windows and seeing the movement, but not necessarily feeling a big movement, it might be hard to live in, for some people but not all.

So is it supposed to constantly be moving? Because that would be hard to tolerate. But if it rotated like at the top of every hour, just to change the view, that would be nice.

I was thinking the same thing! Ewww. I'm such a germ-a-phob I would've said "no thanks, I'll pass." Great pics though, it looks like y'all had a lot of fun!