Clayton:
Well this is my 5 1\4 bar I have built, or should I say when and if this wine bar is complete it will be 5 1/4.

All my other bars I have built in my homeland of New Zealand. I always felt I had artistic ability but no way of showing it. I can't draw, can't build, can't sculpt and so on but I can do all those things in my head. The only way I felt iI could create was to build bars. Building bars in N Z was a walk in the park compared the hurdles I am facing with this simple little wine bar. The one thing I really admired about America was it was always portrayed as the land of opportunity. That maybe so but it's not without what feels like trip up land mines to discourage you from trying too hard.
We had to sign a lease before we could apply for a building permit. To sign a lease for a shop on a busy main street of a tourist town is as you can imagine very expensive, but the process does not start without this first step. So I told Valerie now there is no turning back. Stay tuned for the weeks and what looks like months of hurdles our little wine bar endures before we open in hopefully the not too distant future. I just hope we don't go broke before we manage to get the doors open for the first day.