We had been visiting Mexico for years and had given thought to living there one day. Then one day, back in 2005, we invited
our good friend Joe King Carrasco to come play at a party we were having at the house as a celebration of
Lizard's birthday and our son's last hooorah before departing for his first tour of Iraq. After the party was
over and the guests had gone home we were loading Joe and his band down with leftover BBQ and cake when Joe
says, "Ya know, we both love Mexico, yall should really open a restaurant and bar in Mexico and I can be the house band." Well
that planted the seed, so the next thing to do was decide on a name and location. After tossing around a few ideas, we finally
decided to use a combination of Paul's nickname from Jr High and High School (aka Lizard) and Joe's name giving a name to our
dream Lizard Joes.