We are spending New Year’s Eve at a hotel off the I-95 corridor in central North Carolina. Tomorrow, we will be home after being away on a terrific vacation for nearly three weeks.

I may have mentioned this in an earlier post, but it really stood out today while driving through North Carolina:

What is up with all of the advertisements for adult toy and video stores along the I-95 corridor?

I think I saw more billboards for these establishments¹ in North Carolina than one might find on 42nd Street in Manhattan in the 1970s. I’m not really sure what my notion of North Carolina was, but it wasn’t “Adult Entertainment Capital of the East.”