A road trip Saturday took Gerri and me into the NE Georgia mountains. Tallulah Falls State Park was the highlight of the day. We did some hiking around the top of the gorge. The photo to the right was taken on a swinging bridge across the gorge.
Dillard, Georgia was the northern terminus of the trip. We had a late lunch at the Dillard House before turning back to Lawrenceville. The meal there was delicious but also a little overwhelming. They serve you “Family Style” which means they bring out bowls of food to your table and you serve yourself from the bowls. There were three different meats and about seven different vegatables served. That was a lot of food for just two people.
Other towns along the way were Homer, Clarkesville and Rabun Gap. The scenery was wonderful but the fall colors weren’t quite as vibrant as I had hoped. Still, it was a very enjoyable day trip. I look forward to doing it again sometime.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
