Somewhere between Atlanta’s urban sprawl and the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains sits a shopping experience that makes big-box stores feel like sad, fluorescent-lit prisons of conformity.
La Vaquita Flea Market in Pendergrass, Georgia is the kind of place where you walk in looking for nothing in particular and leave with a car full of things you never knew you desperately needed.
The name translates to “The Little Cow” in Spanish, which is charmingly modest for a marketplace that’s anything but little.
This sprawling bazaar has become a weekend pilgrimage site for bargain hunters, food lovers, and anyone who believes that the best shopping experiences involve a little adventure and a lot of unexpected discoveries…