Raleigh

For the St. Patrick’s Day Parade last year. Easy to walk around and downtown has lots of Historic places to visit.

Just stayed overnight here with coworkers. We arrived in the evening and stayed overnight to catch a plane home the next morning. We drove around downtown, looking for a place to eat. We finally stopped at a pretty hip-looking place called the Mellow Mushroom. We had pizzas. I rather liked the restaurant.

I dropped the coworkers off at the airport and stayed on for a few extra days, as my brother, dougviii, lives about 80 miles away.

There’s a small park in the middle of town, which is a great place to meet have a picnic and meet homeless people. Also, I highly sugest walking around alone at night so Johns think you’re a male prostitute..

I’ve been here a few times, for a total of 4-5 weeks, maybe. There are said to be 100,000 university students within a few miles, what with NCSU, UNC, Duke and Wake Forest. But I don’t knwo where they all hide! Not as exciting a city as one would expect. I remember Raleigh as the place where I learned what it means to be able to cut the humidity with a knife. But it is a beautiful place and seems like a pretty good place to live. great golf courses. Saw my first college football game there and came to understand a little of how crazy that actually is! NC State vs. Pitt and the home team one. Major party!

Growing like crazy. Go CANES.