Arnprior, ON

Andreas Paepcke
Jul 30, 2017 · 2 min read

Made the 5+ hr ride to the arbitrarily chosen Arnprior, ON. A sparklingly attractive town.

“Historic Downtown” Arnprior

From the very nice looking Quality Inn a bit outside of town I was “overflowed” to the Arnprior Motor Inn.

I was “overflowed” to here, being that the Quality Inn was full. The interior is either icy with air conditioning, or humidly warm without. The owner: a nice Indian man, though. Not the place that expects the clientele to write, and to offer a desk for such endeavors. It’s got a bed, though!

The owner directed me to Steve & Denni’s Restaurant for dinner. Overshooting my destination I found myself in a partially residential area with surprisingly grand old buildings. Not sure what’s up there. Asking a man for directions to the diner, he was vague:

“I’ve been there long time ago with my brother. It’s somewhere on the main drag. I’m not sure. I just come here for AA.”

Not knowing the appropriate response I wished him “good luck with that”, and found the diner.

You get any type of food in Steve & Denni’s restaurant.

The waitress was a diner genre original. I got along with her splendidly.

A diner genre original

“What would you like?”

“I’d love some wine.”

“We have only one kind: Bodayjabble or something. I daknow how to pronounce it. Comes in red or white.”

“Ah, the red then, please.”

Often places like this have good pork chops. Not this one. I could easily have had them packaged to go for resoling my shoes further down the road if needed.

Sitting here in my motel room, I must concede, though: The cinder blocks in the room are well stacked! I’m just noticing this, and want to give credit!

View from where I’m writing this entry.

Good night, all! Was a good day and ended well.

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