Saturday - What's Kentucky Like?

Well our purchases have exceeded our space in our car so we have finally decided to trade it in for a U-Haul Truck.
We'll have to drive home now so don't look for us on Monday.
We'll be arriving on Wednesday or Thursday.
So, Jake, i'm now seriously looking for that rocking chair that you were asking for.

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This morning we got up and went first thing to the shoe repair man (the Cobbler). He fixed my bag in about 1 minute and charged me $1.00
(& I didn't even haggle over the price). He was really nice too!!

When looking for a good place to eat today - we asked the locals to recommend a good place. They said "Head on down to Ralphs front lawn, he has the best BBQ around."
That's just what Sue and I were lookin' for - so we drove on down to the
"Old Barn Bar-B-Que" owned by Ralph Willis.

The was the BEST BBQ we ever had!! Sorry Rusty & Jill on Signal Mountain - You come in a close 2nd.

Ralph's wife Leetta makes all the fixin's: and they sure are good: homemade baked beans, homemade potato salad (these are the best I've ever had) -
I wanted to ask for the recipe!

Ralph's BBQ is incredible - I don't know what he puts on it - but it's SOOO GOOD! He even has corn on the cob cooking right on the BBQ in the husk. Now that's good cookin'! And, he gave us a taste of all his food - they are the nicest people!

We saw this sign today - thought it was funny since I got hurt yesterday
by the old 80 year old lady!

We saw alot of Amish people today - I wonder if they live here?

Once again - Making friends in the State of Kentucky

Sue likes to make friends with the animals and we went to the post office and made friends with Janice.

Sue with her "dress-up" vendor friends

We love being at the Worlds Longest Yard Sale!
We love being in Kentucky! It is a beautiful State - The people are so friendly -
It is so rural - lots of barns - green - cows - beautiful trees - just peaceful!

***(now a note***JK about the UHAUL - we'll see you on Monday)***
(Jake - I'm not really going to buy you a rocking chair)

Friday at the Yard Sale

Today - Friday - Another day on the 127 -TENN/KY:
As we drove into Crossville - we thought we were on the Winchester offramp! There was so much traffic! Everyone seemed to want to get off at that offramp.

We felt right at home - especially when a car decided it didn't want to wait in line like everyone else and wanted to cut in line right in front of us! We took a picture of the cheatin' car - & it's cheatin' driver!

Today I had a very bad accident - as I was looking at some beautiful glassware I happened to walk past a trailer which an old 80 year old woman was opening the door to. Well, the trailer door swung open very quickly & the radius was right in my pathway & it was coming right for me - before I knew it - the latch of the trailer had grazed the side of my back, torn my shirt, and shaken us all up pretty bad. (it hurt kinda bad - but i'm not going to complain about it.)
She ended up giving me a good deal on a milk glass pitcher.

We had lunch in Jamestown, TN at a place called the "Hangin' Hog". The food wasn't very good but the decoration right inside was well worth the trip.



We also picked up our "Official" Corridor 127 World's Longest Yard Sale T-Shirts
in Jamestown. This is the Headquarters for the yard sale and
I had pre-ordered our shirts.

Sometimes when we're driving - I don't know how it happens - but we get lost.
It's a good thing we have the GPS. But, one good thing comes out of it.
We always find beautiful country when we get lost. Just look at these pictures.

So, Sue has been looking for this blue pitcher everywhere we go. Today this vendor finally had one. Sue was so excited. The lady rummaged through her stuff, found the pitcher and told Sue that there was just one little problem with it. It had a crack in it so she would give it to her for only $3.00. So, she decided to pass on the pitcher.

A very disappointed sister....

On the way here, in the airport, my bag broke. Ever since, i've been looking for a shoe repair man in every city to fix it. But to no avail! I've looked everywhere.

Today Sue said she found a shoe repair man and I got so excited.
And then I realized she only meant the sign. Sometimes her jokes aren't so funny....

Tonight as we were coming into town, I said "I think this town will have a shoe repair man." Sue said "no way." And it was probably 30 seconds
later that we passed this business -
boy -oh -boy was I happy!!!

We met alot of new friends again today:
Sue made friends with some dogs

We made friends with people who wear these things around our necks to keep us cool - we all think we're cool!

Sue made friends with the lady from the post office -

All in All - it was a very successful day - - beautiful country!

A day like no other.....

Our day began as we drove from Kimball to Signal Mountain where we began our GREAT ADVENTURE of THE YARD SALE!! And what a sale it was! It was way more than we expected! We found such great deals!

We ran into wonderful people and made great friends!

These 2 ladies are our good friends - we just call them "the sisters"

This here is our good friend "Elvis"

And this man here - is a great friend of mine -
he gave me an EASEL - my first FREE item!

Sue made good friends with this GOAT

So, if you want to know if we're having a good time -

- just look at the following pictures and see for yourself -

The end of the day - taking our treasures to our room to access the damages!

WELCOME TO NASHVILLE: SUE & BECKY

127 Corridor World's Longest Yardsale

It's a sale like no other — 654 miles of yard sales, antiques dealers, flea markets, garage sales, and barn sales.

We've been making our "Wish Lists" of things we are looking out for. We've done our research on Ebay so we know what our items are worth and we're ready to haggle properly!

We're especially interested in trying the foods from the area. Just tonight, we drove all the way to Chatanooga just to find a "Five Guys" so we could have dinner (our first meal of the day). Sue said it was worth the drive!

What do you think the food and the packaging looks like?

A little like IN N OUT???

I hate to say it - but, it was was better than IN N OUT - You put Cajun spices on the fries (their the BEST!!!)

I hope we don't come home 10 lbs heavier!(of course not, we'll be walking so much - it will even out!)

Longest Yard Sale...Here We Come....

Tomorrow I fly to Nashville with my sister, Sue, so i'm getting packed and ready to go. We are taking 2 large suitcases and checking them in (pretty much empty with just bubble wrap and some boxes for mailing).
We are hoping to bring back lots of great stuff that we are going to find at the "Longest Yard Sale" along Hwy 127 between Tenessee and Kentucky. I'll try to update my blog each day (if I'm not too tired from all our yard-saling & treasure finding).

You can look on google map to see where we are at. We are starting the Yard Sale on Thursday Morning at Dunlap on the 127 Hwy. The sale goes Thursday, Friday, Saturday, & Sunday.
It's a Yard Salers Paradise!!