From the first post on the blog:
Sara and I have been living in Austin since 2002/3 (late ’02 for her, early ’03 for me). We’d lived in Austin for 3 years during law school, but it graduate school years don’t really count since no matter where you are for grad school, you’re really living in a different city.
Despite living here for so many years, we really haven’t experienced a lot of what makes Austin Austin. We’ve dabbled a bit, every once in a while we’ve been introduced to an Austin favorite spot through some friends. But for the most part, we aren’t very adventurous. For the past 3.5 years we’ve had a great excuse since we’ve had a baby to take care of, but now he’s a growing toddler and we have reliable babysitters and a mostly regular date night. A date night which has, far too often, turned into us running errands because there were no movies we wanted to see and nothing we wanted to do but we didn’t want to just come home an hour after having the babysitter take over.
This past weekend, Sara was looking at The Austin Chronicle’s Best of 2008 survey results (Readers results and Critics results). The Chronicle has always been a source of fun local news and locations, so seeing the list triggered something. I said, “Let’s hit every restaurant on this last. Every single one. Within the next year.” And like that, a mission was born.
So here’s where we can record our efforts.
Wish us luck.
