Me and Allison at my bud Nate's wedding.

ST. PAUL, MN – For those of you that religiously check the MHD homepage for new content, you may be asking yourself “What the hell happened to Pete?” No, I didn’t get locked up again and Jason and Adam have yet to off me and dispose of my body along some lonely stretch of road, I flew to Minneapolis/St. Paul (aka the Twin Cities; I clarify here as, back in the day, when at a Fear Factory show a couple of hours away I told bandmember Dino that they needed to come back to the Twin Cities more often and he said “Twin Cities?”).

Allison with Sara and Tom at their home in St. Paul

At the airport I was met by my girl Allison Gibbs (who you may remember from our run-in with the Jones County Sheriffs Department, recent video about the Ladies of Liberty Alliance, and more), who had just flown in from DC. We were picked up by my Aunt Kathy and Grandma, and in addition to seeing them and my bro Tom and sis-in-law Sara (whom Allison and I stayed with) and seeing each other, the reason for our visit was the wedding of one of my good buds from high school and undergrad (one of the last of our crew I figured would settle down) and my 10 year high school reunion (where I learned a number of folks had been following MHD and made sure they knew of our Oct 2nd meetup). And I played tour guide a bit (Como Park, Summit Ave. and Grand Ave., the Walker Sculpture Garden, Mall of America, my old stomping grounds in Eagan, etc.).

Pete and Allison at James J. Hill House

Since Allison has a real job (working as the director of outreach for the Campaign for Liberty), she had to fly back last night, but I’m going to work remotely for MHD through this week and meet Adam and Jason on Friday in Nashville, in time for our meetup there, which is being co-hosted by the Nashville Liberty on the Rocks.

So, while I’ll be working as usual (editing video content, writing blog posts, responding to emails, etc.) I won’t be with the rest of the crew. But if you live in the area or are familiar with the area and have some story ideas I can cover while here or for the guys in eastern TN please let us know by leaving your suggestion as a comment. Thanks in advance!

Me and Nate, the groom himself, at the reception.

Me with my good buds Jesse and Josh at Nate's reception.