“First of all, I got kind of spooked when I pulled into the Econo Lodge (to which the sign is adjacent), and saw hotel employees hauling out junk and throwing it into a dumpster directly below the sign. One of the hotel dudes looked like he might actually have some authority, and might question what we were doing climbing on their defunct sign.

But after sitting for a minute in the truck in nervous silence, Jersey Girl clapped her hands and said, “okay boys, we drove all this way. Let’s hop to it!”

And with that we got started. (Goatbelt Matt was my only helper by the way. All of my other “enthusiastic volunteers” just kind of disappeared as the project deadline approached. Even Rachel’s college friend, who lives in Orlando and works for the billboard ad agency, stood us up. Apparently her husband said that it doesn’t look good for a school teacher in a small town if his wife gets arrested helping a guerilla billboard artist.)....”  You can read more of the story here.