Dancing in an empty field across the freeway from Detroit's airportVeteran's Day was a Monday packed with flying: from Seattle to Chicago O'Hare, then on to Appleton, WI where I arrived at 10pm and had a Leinie's at the hotel's lounge. I have a lot of friends from Appleton: Wiz Shubert, Jim Harrison, and Jenny Sherman among others. I thought about this town they grew up in and wondered if they had any idea what was in store for them freshman year in the stinky, smoky rooms in Pioneer Hall at the University of Minnesota. It was a nice place to be and I wish I could've spent more time hanging around the shores of Lake Winnebago. Tuesday afternoon my presenter, her husband and I flew to Detroit, where we settled in around 9pm. I enjoyed a few cocktails at the Metropolitan's bar, a horrible and smokey scene with a ratio of 25 guys to one girl, blond, plastered, chain smoking, and relishing in the attention she received from lonely and dirty businessmen (I saw her all dressed up in her flight attendant uniform the next morning heading off to work with a couple groggy pilots). The people of Detroit are grouchy and irritable, even the kindergarten teachers who participated in today's event. At the end of the work day we zoomed off in my Toyota Rav4 rental car headed for Saginaw.
A stop in Frankenmuth, MI gave us wayfarers the opportunity to experience the cuisine and culture of Zehnder's and their all-you-can-eat chicken dinner
On the way myself, the presenter, and her husband stopped off in a little German town called Frankenmuth (frank-en-mooth), home of Zehnder's, where fine-dining meets fried chicken and includes an all-you-can-eat dinner offering an appetizer of patte & toasted bread, followed by an entree of mashed potatoes & gravy, stuffing, fried chicken, cranberry sauce, cole slaw, cottage cheese, some sort of cheesy noodles, and ice cream for dessert. We were stuffed to the esophagus and waddled out of Frankenmuth, but not before getting my photo opp. with the local girls:
A stop in Frankenmuth, MI gave us wayfarers the opportunity to experience the cuisine and culture of Zehnder's and their all-you-can-eat chicken dinnerOn the way myself, the presenter, and her husband stopped off in a little German town called Frankenmuth (frank-en-mooth), home of Zehnder's, where fine-dining meets fried chicken and includes an all-you-can-eat dinner offering an appetizer of patte & toasted bread, followed by an entree of mashed potatoes & gravy, stuffing, fried chicken, cranberry sauce, cole slaw, cottage cheese, some sort of cheesy noodles, and ice cream for dessert. We were stuffed to the esophagus and waddled out of Frankenmuth, but not before getting my photo opp. with the local girls:
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