In the Beginning...

How many blogs start that way, do you think?

For me, the beginning was when I went into a local bar and as I was waiting for my friend (KB), I asked the bartenders how many bars there were in the Minneapolis proper. The bar-tendress had just done a marketing project where she had seen the numbers and was able to recall the number of 1100. We determined that it would take 21 years to visit each bar, if one were to visit just one every week. Add in the St. Paul and all surrounding suburbs and throw in the fact that bars are constantly popping up and crashing, that could take a person a lifetime.

It was at that point I decided to set about this new life journey, this goal of visiting one bar in the metro area each week and journaling my experience here for posterity. It's not meant to be a critique. I'm not trying to raise anyone's business up or tear it down, I will simply call it like I see it. I will talk about the bar, the service, the atmosphere, the clientele, the entertainment offerings, but also if anything interesting happened while I was there or if I met any interesting people amongst other things.

This is more than just information about the bars. I'm naturally introverted and because of that, I am usually misunderstood. I need to work through that if I don't want people habitually judging me as stuck-up and aloof. I feel that forcing myself to go into a social situation I would normally feel ashamed to go into alone and forcing myself to talk to others I don't know will push me outside my comfort zone. I need to go outside my comfort zone to grow. I guess, that makes this a journey of self-discovery, just as much as a discovery of who makes the best Bloody Mary, or who's bathrooms are the cleanest. Well, I have nothing else to add to that , so...bottoms up!