Besides roads and "roadgeeking", I'm a fan of other different things... including The Discovery Channel show "Dirty Jobs".

Created and hosted by Mike Rowe, "Dirty Jobs" travels the country featuring the "behind-the-scenes" jobs that (to paraphrase Mr. Rowe's show opening) "make civilized life possible".

At least four (4) Georgia locations have been featured on "Dirty Jobs", and after doing a quick-and-dirty roadgeek analysis of the locations, I found that three (3) of them are located on (or in the vicinity of) a 140-mile (224 km) stretch of US 129 from Gray  in Jones County to Cleveland in White County. The fourth venue is located in Augusta.

With that in mind, I had an epiphany (of sorts)... the Georgia "Dirty Jobs" Trail!!!



For your own PDF copy of the above map, please click here.

Using the crudely-drawn map as a reference, you could start your Georgia "Dirty Jobs" journey from Macon on US 129.

Our first stop, just 14 miles (22 km) from Downtown Macon, is Gray, home of Old Clinton Bar-B-Q, where Mike spent some time cleaning out the barbecue pit on the episode titled "Big Animal Vet".

After visiting Gray, continue up US 129 (which joins US 441 in Eatonton) to I-20 near Madison. From that point, you have 2 choices...

- Take I-20 east to Augusta, home of Ghann's Cricket Farm, where Mike spent some time learning how they raise crickets (plus what they do with "cricket poo") and mealworms in the recent episodes "Cricket Farmer" and "Chicken Buster", respectively.

- Continue north on US 129 to Cleveland, located 24 miles (40 km) north of Gainesville.

In the Cleveland/White County area, the following locations were featured on "Dirty Jobs"...

- Meaders Pottery (episode "Leather Tanner", also part of the Northeast Georgia Folk Pottery Trail)
- Wildlife Wonders (episode "Exotic Animal Keeper")

PLEASE NOTE: This is only my idea for a "trail" for fellow Dirty Jobs fans. Only Old Clinton Bar-B-Q is definitely open to the public. I am not really sure that the other aforementioned locations are necessarily open to the public, thus you are strongly advised to contact them before visiting. Furthermore, I have not been in touch with any of the organizations, so they may not necessarily endorse my "trail" idea.

That's it for now. It's time for dinner and I'm hungry. Thanks for reading and please come back again.

        

 

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