Wright County Swappers Meet

It is the place to be on Memorial Day weekend. You can find almost anything at the swappers meet from antiques to unusual hair, homemade foods, healthy plants, and .... well you name it and at one time or another (if what you named was legal to sell) it has been at the swappers meet to sell. For those of us that live within a half an hour drive, we also find our friends and neighbors checking out the goods.  I look up and around more than I do at the vendors tables.

Upon a Dare, Dale tried new hair

The swappers meet has a large fenced in area.  But on Holiday weekends, the vendors even accept spaces outside of the fence.  They know that the area is going to be so packed with people that it will pay to be there no matter what position that they fill.

Vendor Tents and Tables

On the special weekends, people bring in games for the kids to play, pony rides and in a few places they have puppies for sale.  It is a family event. http://www.wrightcountyswappersmeet.com/Pages/default.aspx

Games for kids

And this weekend, it attracted large groups of people.  We arrived just after 7 AM and left just after 9 AM but we did not make it down all of the lanes.  But I found a few plants that I was looking for and Dale found a pair on cooking tongs that he was looking for and we both had a grilled pork chop for breakfast.

Swappers meet or State Fair?

When we arrived, we were lucky and got a parking spot up front.  When we left we were in such a good spot that there was a line of people waiting for us to get out.  We ended up in a line of traffic a half mile long with a half mile of traffic coming down at us.  This particular spot we had to cross over the line to safely move around someone that had parked on the side of the road.  The oncoming traffic had stopped as people were taking natural turns working around the people parked and walking down the side of the road.  I've never seen people parking out on the other side of the power sub-station before.  It has to be around 3/4 of a mile walk.  I hope they don't buy much.

As we left just after 9AM long lines of vehicles