The Originator

As I've mentioned in one of my early entries, the idea of visiting fifty new bars in the course of a calendar year is not new and is not mine. I got the idea reading through Yelp--a guy named Vlad had made it his mission for 2006, and I somehow ran across his list.

Since I'd spent most of 2006 training for the Nike Women's Marathon, I had spent a lot of antisocial nights at home sleeping. With work and training easing up in December, Vlad's mission sounded like a great idea for 2007. I knew plenty about restaurants in San Francisco, but tended to go to the same bars.

Just thought I'd cite my sources.