My friend and former Fort James Corporation colleague Arline Datu picked me up at the Depot Minneapolis hotel and took me on a driving tour of St. Paul. More about that in a later post. I had no idea prior to that drive that the IABC Pacific Plains Region Exchange Conference planners had the foresight to schedule this year’s conference adjacent to a long-time classic local event: “The Zombie Pub Crawl.”

Yes, Minneapolis is the REAL “Zombieland, U.S.A.” as the ZPC website explains. Forget this movie version–the real-life zombies are pretty entertaining.

I could have killed myself (or let a zombie do it for me) when Arline drove past a park that was the gathering place for dozens of zombies who were getting ready to “Crawl.” I wish I had my camera ready, or that I had yelled for Arline to stop the car. Sadly, I don’t have still photos, just a narly brief video clip that I may or may decide to post later on my YouTube channel. I think the zombies who came up to Arline’s car were attracted to me–probably because they considered me the “brains” of the operation.

Oh well, time to wrap up this post so that I can hunt down some more zombies. I practice “catch and release” zombie fishing, where I don’t use a rifle; I use my camera.

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