Why Not?

Wednesday night has become one of the most important nights of the week for my friends and I. It is when we meet up for dinner and drinks to take a break and catch up with each other’s lives. This Wednesday was no different, except that I had an idea.

This idea is a result of my goal for my social life this year in Raleigh. Last year I felt that I lived the IBM Co-Op experience to its fullest. To help this, I decided to live near NC State in order to easily explore the city. In the past six months, I have had some amazing times, but I still haven’t felt I have seen all that Raleigh has to offer.

To fix this problem, I have decided to create a list.

This list will involve important landmarks, events, venues, restaurants, bars, tours, theaters, plays, whatever comes to mind that I personally have not experienced yet. My good friend Jason decided to name it, “The Ryding List” after the wonderful episode of How I Met Your Mother that involved Barney Stinson performing tasks from The Murtaugh List.

But I need your help.

Since I am still new to the area, I only have a general idea of the major places in Raleigh. I want to find out about the hole-in-wall restaurants, the hidden treasures, the places that people who really know Raleigh can tell me about. If you know of anything in the city that you would tell a friend or family that they need to see before they leave, I want to know about it. So please email me, leave a comment, or reply to me on twitter (@strife25) so that I can find out about these really interesting spots in Raleigh.

I will be blogging, taking pictures, recording some Qik videos and tweeting about the tasks as I do them throughout the summer. On top of this, if you would like to meet up with me as I go through my list, please email or DM me on twitter as I am sure there will be some events in Raleigh you didn’t know about yourself. If you are on twitter, go ahead an follow the hashtag #theRydingList.

I will be taking input for this list until Sunday at 12:00 pm, where I will then post it here for everyone to see.

Thank you in advance for contributing to the beginning of a wonderful adventure for me, my friends, and all the people we meet along the way.