Do you love farmers markets and flea markets?  I recently went to the biggest farmers/flea market that I have ever seen.  It’s called the Anderson Jockey Lot, and it sits on 65 acres with more than 2,150 spaces. The average daily attendance is 30,000 to 60,000 people.

I was like a kid in a candy store and couldn’t start walking around taking in everything fast enough!

I went with some friends that we met at the campground we are staying at, and we had a great time.  I have to say that to see everything there, you would probably need to go every day for at least a week, if not more, so the parts we were able to get to was only a fraction of the whole place.  Many of the vendors are inside under huge metal buildings that all connect together.  On every corner, there were peanuts being roasted, and the smell of roasted peanuts filled the buildings like a warm hug. 

There were vendors selling all kinds of wares, from phones, to baseball hats to animals (including chickens, dogs, cats, rabbits and a whole host of other animals).  There was also, thank goodness, a vendor making fresh doughnuts….. I cannot resist them, and I absolutely didn’t this day!  Hot chocolate, freshly cooked doughnuts, fresh air, and good friends, what more could a girl want for? 

Now if you knew me, you would know to never go to buy fresh vegetables with me, because I get very excited over gorgeous fresh veggies.  And this day was no different, there were outside vendors who had a huge selectin of veggies between them, and I couldn’t believe my eyes.  There were veggies that I had never seen before, and I couldn’t resist buying more than I have storage for in our RV.  I figured I would just have to prep them, freeze them and use them at a later date. 

I was in heaven, my day couldn’t get any better…… I would have been more than happy to come home when we left the Jockey lot, but my friends weren’t ready to come right home, so we decided to go to a local winery and check out some of the wines local to this area.  Now, I had never been to a winery before, because I’m not really a wine drinker, but I thought it would be lovely to be able to cross this experience off of my bucket list.

We headed off towards the mountains to a winery that a couple of our friends had been to before we arrived in the area, it was very laid back and we all felt relaxed, even before we had had any wine! 

City Scape Winery in Pelzer, SC was a peaceful, tranquil place.  It was rustic and homely, but their wines were delicious.  We tried six different wines varying from dry white wines to red and even a chocolate raspberry wine. 

The only downside for the whole visit were the yellowjackets which were out in force on this day and for some reason found me to be particularly appealing!  I was plagued by the viscious little flying beasts.  They were literally all over me and when I had to get up from the table several times to try to escape them, they followed me wherever I went.  One even decided to take a bath in my glass of wine, which I wouldn’t have minded, except for the fact that he did it BEFORE I had sipped any to try it.  I wasn’t about to try this wine with a yellowjacket swimming around in it.

I also fund out a year ago that I have a very nasty reaction to a sting from yellowjackets, so I was very wary.  That, fortunately, did not take away from the wonderful experience we had at the winery.  They also served a couple of local cheeses and jams with some really delicious crackers.  All in all, it was a perfect day, and we all had a lot of laughs and made a lot of great memories, which to me makes it a perfect day.

The friends we have made are totally awesome, and we will be friends for life now.  They have become like family to us, and we are so blessed to have met such wonderful people.  When we started full time RVing, we had no idea that we would meet so many wonderful people on our travels.  We are all so different, but we also have in common the passion for living in an RV full time and traveling around the country.  Linsley and I are finding out that this way of life is so much more than we had ever expected it would be.  Each and every day we experience something new and there is a lot of laughter, fun and love in our lives, oh and lots of great food too.