I moved downtown three years ago and found that I really had no use for a second car so I sold one car and kept the other. \u00a0I now find myself using the R-line or walking around downtown during the week for dinner or just going to the bank and post office\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..I know very urban of me. \u00a0It really is amazing how much you notice while walking versus zooming around in a car. \u00a0The past several months, I\u2019ve been walking down to Glenwood South for dinner or walking toward Fayetteville Street for the banks and post office. \u00a0On my walks I\u2019m always amazed what I see and most of the time I think \u201chmmmm, why did that happen\u201d or \u201chmmmm, who would ever have thought about doing that” or \u201chmmmm, I\u2019ve never noticed that before\u201d.<\/p>\n
Have you ever wondered why people park on the sidewalks and you, the pedestrian, now have to walk in the street to get around to the other side? \u00a0\u00a0The other day while walking I had to walk around three motorcycles parked on the sidewalk. \u00a0The best part, two parking lots are directly across the street. \u00a0Are they really that cheap they don\u2019t wont to pay the $3 bucks for parking? How about the fire trucks from station #1 on Dawson Street? \u00a0I was walking to Fayetteville Street and heard the fire trucks in the distance and the sirens got closer and closer and I found myself holding my ears while they passed me. \u00a0Don\u2019t get me wrong; I understand why they use the sirens. \u00a0What I don\u2019t understand is why all of the fire trucks went out on a call and before I reached Fayetteville Street on my walk I saw all three coming down the road\u2026\u2026..no sirens and back in 5 minutes. Have you ever walked down Fayetteville Street and noticed the detailed architecture? My favorite building is the old Briggs Hardware, which houses the Raleigh City Museum. \u00a0Did you know that Raleigh has its own museum on Fayetteville Street? Take a look <www.raleighcitymuseum.org><\/a>. \u00a0One thing that I enjoy the most about Fayetteville Street is walking at night and taking in the views from the Capital to the Progress Energy Performing Arts building.<\/p>\n So park that car and take a stroll downtown. I think you will also be amazed how many hmmm\u2019s you will find while making that hike to dinner or just running errands. \u00a0Look forward to hearing more hmmmm stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I moved downtown three years ago and found that I really had no use for a second car so I sold one car and kept the other. I now find myself using the R-line or walking around downtown during the week for dinner or just going to the bank and post office……………..I know very urban of me. It really is amazing how much you notice while walking versus zooming around in a car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2909,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/2909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}