One of the things that I have been involved in professionally is the Wake Technical Community College Advisory Board. I sit on the board for Architectural Technology. Each spring one of our activities is to review the graduating students final projects. Yesterday was the midterm review. There were three teams and all gave presentations of the progress made thus far. This years project site is a lot in downtown raleigh along Bloodworth Street from East Hargett to East Martin. Students are tasked with creating a mixed use development with retail on the lower level and SRO apartments above. Each team had decided to include a grocery store on the first level since the area is in a food desert. The footprint for each project team was different from the other. The resident amenities were also different for each project. I am looking forward to the final presentation at the end of the semester to see how comments were received and implemented.
This past weekend we took a trip to the mountains of Virginia. It is an area we have visited before with the Boy Scout troop, but this time we went without the scouts. I have been riding consistently again for nearly a year after I bought a new to me cyclocross bike. You can read more about that here . After more than 2,800 miles on that bike since last June, it needed some more work. The headset was pretty much shot and would not be repaired in time for our planned trip to Virginia. So Gina suggested that I get a new bike. I ended up getting a Giant Revolt Advanced 2 from Giant Wake Forest . We arrived at our rental house very early Saturday morning. 1:30am in fact. We found a place to stay that was literally steps away from The Virginia Creeper Trail . Saturday was to be a day we went hiking at Grayson Highlands State Park . We met Gina's co-workers at the park just after 10:00 am and started our hike. We have camped at this park before with the Boy Scouts but have never ...
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