I agree. It seems like we used to do more of these - weeknight dinners in various locales. I probably attended at least two dozen of these in my first couple of years on FT and it made time on the road alone that much more fun. Admittedly, I've posted less of these myself for two reasons - one, because my own travel has changed and I do more day trips and quick turn overnights now and two, because I've made a lot of friends already over the years in various cities and so a lot of times we just get together and probably don't do a good job of remembering how we met and to bring new FTers into the fold.

Maybe the tide needs to turn starting with some of us. We've entertained lots of guests in Dallas during the week do to the Monthly Gathering Thread. I know DC and Chicago have done the same with their mid-week dinners (not really DOs, just get togethers). Maybe its time for more of us (and I say more, because I know there are some people who regularly post dinners when they are traveling - SweetWillie, lucky9876coins, and BenjaminNYC are three that come to mind) to look ahead at our travel schedules and try to organize smaller dinner parties and things like we used to do all the time.