NORTHBOUND ON HIGHWAY 75, Adel, Ga. — There are lonelier stretches of American highway than this. The six-hour drive from Jaguars camp in Jacksonville to Falcons camp in Flowery Branch, Ga., can be broken up nicely by counting the comically frequent appearances of billboards for the Magnolia Plantation, a curiosity to two Pennsylvania natives making the trek from northern Florida up through Philadelphia over the next seven days.
Boasting nuts, jams, jellies and LARGE CLEAN BATHROOMS, there is no way to escape the allure of this roadside behemoth which—no exaggeration—must have been advertised in 45, 100-foot-wide advertisements in one five-mile stretch.