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5/29/2012 Update – 3 Years In!

As of April 30, I’ve been chronicling the bars I’ve gone to in the Quad Cities for three years, and almost two years through this forum.  As that date approached I was hustling, trying to attain my goals of 300 bars in three years and 450 overall.  The first goal I accomplished, by hitting the Rusty Nail, The Torchlight, and The Triangle in the final days, but I fell woefully short of the other at 431.   I thought about (semi) retirement, or at least a little rest.  After all, during that time I visited 300 bars, a total of 1429 times.  I also went to 111 bars not in the Quad Cities, a total of 161 times.  That adds up to 1590 times at the pub.  Let’s see… 365 days in a year, plus 1 for Leap Year:  that’s 1590 in 1096 days.  So I thought maybe a little break might be a good thing.  But… 4 Play in the District of Rock Island and the second Bent River Brewery location (also in Rock Island) opened, and now I’m at 433 .  Due to open any day is the Freight House location for