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Updated: 11:43 PM May 27, 2007
Still Traveling
WTAP News
Of course, the most talked about subject this holiday weekend is the rising gas prices, but it isn't stopping everyone who wants to hit the roads.
Posted: 6:46 PM May 27, 2007
Reporter: Todd Baucher
Email Address: todd.baucher@wtap.com
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There's one form of transportation which, while it has a small gas tank, is easy on gas...especially if you're riding with no destination in mind.

"It's expensive, but if you want to do it, you have to pay the price," said a motorcyclist we encountered in I-77. "I'm in the oil and gas business, so I like it."

"We're not going to do much traveling", said more traditional motorist William Hayhurst, of Fairmont, West Virginia, who vows, "This will be one of the few."

In Noble County, prices were a little less expensive...but not much. Still, we found plenty of people traveling to the small town of Reinersville, Ohio, home of what's billed as ohio's third largest outdoor flea market.
Some of the people displaying items almost make a summer of traveling to events like this. but while they feel the pinch...

"People are going to do it; I don't care if it goes to $10 a gallon," says vendor Virgil Bentley, of Newark, Ohio. "They're used to doing it. A lot of people have a lot of money. But it'll hurt the poor ones, I'll tell you."

But will they have the money to spend at places like this? There are still a lot of people buying, but, according to Richard Earley of Marietta, "More in the tank, more out of the pocket."

That flea market, by the way, continues through Monday, on Ohio Route 78. near the Morgan-Noble County line.