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location: Oconee County,Georgia,United States
image: 2015/school.jpg
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dek: Something called touch-a-truck that rolls through town, or just south of town at a place call Heritage Park, every year. It turns out to be pretty much what it sounds like: a place where kids can touch trucks — semi-trucks, fire engines, ambulances and more.
pub_date: 2015-03-15T13:38:34
slug: schoolhouse
title: Schoolhouse
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There's something called Touch-a-Truck that rolls through town, or just south of town, at a place called Heritage Park, every year. It turns out to be pretty much what it sounds like: a place where kids can touch trucks. Semi-trucks, fire engines, ambulances even a bomb squad truck with the world's most boring robot. Seriously bomb squad guy, kids don't care about how slowly and delicately your robot can pick up an empty piece of PVC pipe. Next time bring a real bomb and detonate it or at least make the robot *do* something.

The girls loved the fire engine and the ambulance, but were not so crazy about the semi and its horn.

<img src="[[base_url]]/2015/touch-a-truck.jpg" alt="Touch a truck ambulance" class="picfull" />

The far and away favorite though was the tractor ride. Because who wants to touch a truck when you can ride on one?

<img src="[[base_url]]/2015/touch-a-tractor.jpg" alt="Touch a truck tractor ride" class="picfull" />

We hopped off the ride at the halfway point to check out the old schoolhouse that we see every time we head out of town for points south, but had never been inside before. The schoolhouse, particularly the old upstairs auditorium and stage, complete with original, tattered curtains, trumped Touch-a-Truck I think.

<img src="[[base_url]]/2015/schoolhouse-01-barrelman-productions.jpg" alt="Heritage Park Schoolhouse, image by www.barrelmanproductions.com" class="picfull" />

<img src="[[base_url]]/2015/schoolhouse-02.jpg" alt="Heritage Park Schoolhouse upstairs" class="picfull" />

<img src="[[base_url]]/2015/schoolhouse-03.jpg" alt="Heritage Park Schoolhouse" class="picfull" />

This is about as close to school as our kids will ever get. Actually, school might not be so bad if it consisted of letting children run around and play in abandoned buildings.

<img src="[[base_url]]/2015/schoolhouse-04.jpg" alt="Heritage Park Schoolhouse" class="picfull" />

<img src="[[base_url]]/2015/schoolhouse-05.jpg" alt="Heritage Park Schoolhouse" class="picfull" />

The bouncy house was also popular, if somewhat less photogenic.

<img src="[[base_url]]/2015/schoolhouse-06.jpg" alt="Touch a truck ambulance" class="picfull" />

<small>[Note, the aerial image above was taken by [custom aerial photography experts](http://www.barrelmanproductions.com/), Barrelman Productions.]</small>