Jim's Recurring Dream Was Back Again — Bob Holt

From Duplin County, North Carolina, I began traveling northeastern NC in 1962 leaving home each Monday and returned on Thursday or Friday. Driving over 60,000 miles each year, I spend many nights in motels stretching from Washington, NC to Kitty Hawk; westward to Roanoke Rapids then southward to Williamston, Greenville, and Tarboro.
Every night I was joined by other traveling salesmen, most of whom were either in sales or insurance. Booze was consumed as stories, lies, and fabrications were shared. I guess that's where the “farmer's daughters” stories came from.
The people I met calling on restaurants, hospitals, and schools were diverse and many were extremely interesting.
There are many real people and places in my book but the main characters; Jim, Mary Beth, Geri, Alice, Ronnie, Jennie, Taylor, and Laura are fictional and only figments of my imagination planted and entwined together into an area I fondly refer to as the “Northeastern Corner of North Carolina.”