Durham and Chapel Hill; Saturday July 31

This day was planned to visit the other two cities of in the Raleigh area - Durham and Chapel Hill. As it turned out, as I was planning to leave some friends in the area let me know they were in town (they had planned a trip for the weekend I was in the area). That sort of changed my plans. I really only made it to Duke University, and then only to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. The gardens were extensive and very peaceful (except to the construction going on in one area. It started raining before I was able to get to all of the sections, but I was supposed to meet my friends by then anyway.

My friends lived in a suburban area north of Raleigh. We talked and traded stories about work and life. We only had a couple of hours before they had to go off for various activities planned for their kids.

After that I drove to Chapel Hill. This was very much a college town like Brockport. It seemed that the new students were arriving while I was there. It was raining most of the time I was there. I walked along the main street and then had dinner. There was a planetarium down the block so I waited and saw the evening show. I found a poster of various rockets from the 1960s on and bought that for framing at home, since that's an area I'm interested in.

I drove back to the hotel and called it a night.