Like about 50 million other Americans, my family took to the road during this past Memorial Day weekend. And as traffic on the Georgia highways forced us to drive at 5 mph for extended portions of our trip, there wasn’t much else to do but stare at some of the billboards.
The main highways between Atlanta and Florida are filled to the brim with billboards tantalizing drivers about one roadside attraction or the next. Nine times out of ten, they’ll mention fresh peaches or pecans. A couple of them touted the number of clean restrooms just waiting for drivers who needed a pit stop. We’ve made all those stops in the past, and while candied pecans and fresh fudge are good, they’re nothing that make us pull off the road and stop.