Originally Posted by
bikemig
Well the next time you visit DM, I'll show you some great food, great beer, and great bike riding. If you want a hot dog on a stick, you're on your own buddy.
Thanks for the offer. I'll be sure to wave the next time I'm passing by. (
From ~35 - 40,000 feet.)

It was 8 or 9 years ago, and we stayed in a cool (expensive) old hotel, but there were no restaurants at all downtown. We finally found one

Italian

place open with overboiled macaroni in catsup sauce.
The menu said they had Asti and another, unspecified white champagne; when my wife said, "I'd like a glass of the white champagne." the waitress said condescendingly as if we were farmers: "
Asti is white champagne, Ma'am."
"
Reckon you oughta 'ppreciate me taking you out to this here fancy restaurant, Martha..."