We went to our last Wednesday night bible study before out move last night. It is in Spanish and we will be leaving some dear friends behind when we move. Lorena and I look forward to our return to Oregon, but have talked about our time in North Carolina a lot over the last few weeks. We have been here for seven years and are leaving for work, proximity to family and for fellowship, but will always love North Carolina in general and Raleigh in particular very, very much.

We have made many, many good, life-long friends here. They, by themselves are reason to love North Carolina forever. There are just so many other things we love, they are too numerous to list, but I thought I would list just a few:

  • People still say please, thank you, yes ma’am and yes sir.
  • People wave and greet you in the neighborhood, grocery stores, in the street and everywhere else they get the chance.
  • The beautiful deciduous trees are nothing short of amazing.
  • Raleigh is the best small city in the country. Not Durham, not Cary, not Chapel Hill, not Charlotte, but Raleigh.
  • Charlotte. It is not Raleigh, but it IS Charlotte and that is a very good thing.
  • Cookout.
  • Bojangles.
  • Wake Technical Community College.
  • North Carolina State University.
  • The Hunt Library at NCSU.
  • The Hill Library at NCSU.
  • Cameron Village.
  • The Appalachians. Westerns have a tendency to act disdainful toward these smaller mountains in the East. They are wrong.
  • Kitty hawk and the beaches.
  • The Durham Performing Arts Center.
  • North Carolina is friendly to homeschoolers.
  • RDU is the very best airport in the country.
  • Values.
  • The Krispy Kreme run.
  • Research Triangle Park.
  • Great neighbors in our great neighborhood.
  • Fort Bragg and the Special Forces Museums.

I have missed a lot because I am on the run, so I reserve the right to come back and add to this list.

Betty Blonde #248 – 06/29/2009
Betty Blonde #248
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