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<\/a>Neepawa Motel<\/p><\/div>\n
Neepawa, MB<\/p>\n
Today’s stop is Neepawa. I’ll be staying in the Neepawa motel: 65 bucks a night and all that goes with it: 2-1\/2 x 2-1\/2 shower stall; furniture nailed to the floor; and a notice itemizing the room’s contents and the penalty for stealing anything. But, I’m tired and it’s a room for the night. Then, Mr. Lee, the proprietor is one of the friendliest and most-hospitipal guys your likely to meet on the road (that’s where the motel is — on the side of the Trans Canada on the edge of town); and so are the guests I met.<\/p>\n
Charlie and Wilma, for example, who have come to Neepawa from Regina to shop for a new motorhome (they love to travel): Charlie\u00a0heard me pull in on Gunther, and is eager to swap stories about bikes and biking. Older and retired now, he’s been riding since he was in his teens as well; and tells me about the time he took off on his father’s BMW without permission as a kid. Charlie\u00a0rides a Vespa these days; and in his Hungarian accent explains, “I can’t swing my leg\u00a0over a motorcycle to get on.”<\/p>\n
Charlie emmigrated to Canada from Hungary in ’57 to start a new life as so many did (and continue to do). His background was in starting up and engineering farming facilities–setting up farms with everything they would need to be successful. So, they come to Canada.\u00a0He doesn’t speak a word of English. Then, the farming here is very different from Hungary — different soil; different crops (it’s mainly wheat over here); differnt political structure (in Hungary, the government supplied the infrastructure; over here, it was the farmer). Like so many did, he overcame these challenges. Overcoming challenges. This keeps coming up as I speak to people as a travel West. No wonder. This is a tough part of the world to live in. All the moreso if you’ve had to uproot yourself from another part of the world and adapt to it. I think Canadians are generally a pretty-hardy bunch. We just don’t toot our horns about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
West Hawk Lake, MB – Neepawa MB 3,421 km A bit of breakfast at the West Hawk Lake Inn restaurant\u00a0to\u00a0a country and western soundtrack before hitting the road. Today, I’m headed for Neepawa. Not sure what the plan is after that. There’s a provincial park North of there where there’s allegedly a sea monster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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