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Thanks Explore Minnesota for the awesome week, and have been amazing and relaxing! Kudos to the fantastic and amazing food. Found out what tinned fish is, that walleye is a big deal here and delicious, and that there are some killer Vietnamese and Karen places to it! To my Midwest homies, take a trip “up North” I guarantee you’ll have a great time!

This will be a long post but it’s a good story. This year Pete Yorn celebrates the 25th anniversary of his debut release . I was lucky enough to catch 2 shows back to back on his tour supporting the album. 4/9/02 was the first of two shows at Mississippi Nights. I met Pete after the show and I told him I was seeing him live the next night in Columbia, MO The Blue Note and told him at midnight when it hit 4/11 that I would be 21. I then asked him if I could have my first legal b**r with him. He introduced me to his tour manager and I was told to find him before the show to set everything up. The show started on 4/10 where he wished happy birthday to me from stage and the set ended about 11p. Come about 11:50p I met up with Pete and asked if I could buy him a b**r and he handed me a Bud light he had waiting there for me. We took our picture together and had a b**r then I gallivanted around Columbia getting drinks everywhere…legally for the first time 😉 Oh and I am such a nerd I kept the bottle he gave me.
Since then I have followed Pete, seen him 6 times live over the years, and he has also shaped how I write and listen to music. Pete, thank you and it would be cool if our paths crossed again. This was definitely a once in a lifetime experience and I cannot thank you enough!

and for those who think you have to get out of the city to enjoy nature, just look around. Every morning I go into the backyard with a cup of coffee and look at all our plants. The amount of life outside of our human existence is awe inspiring if you just look around.
Have a good day and yeah for the weekend that approaches us!

Some of my favorite pics from my week in the “country”. Next time you go to Hermann, MO continue on hwy 100 past the campgrounds. The drive though Gasconade County seeing the river and farmland then continuing on hwy N passing through Morrison to Chamios is beautiful.

𝗨𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗻𝘂𝘁 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼. ® and a river take evening relaxation to another level. Being in the city is great and all but this view “goes up to eleven”