Alpena Bar Crawl

Well, I was headed up to Alpena, MI to the cabin for a day or two, mostly to job hunt, but also to get out of the city and do something different. My original Plan was to go from Monday afternoon until Wednesday evening or even Thursday morning. But those plans changed a little when my buddy Fraggle expressed interest in going as well. He had a class with a test on Monday night and a Job interview (along with a drug screen after) so we then planned to leave after that. So we got on the road about 3pm on Tuesday. After a little on the road we decided that we were getting a little thirsty for a beer so we then had the great idea of having a little pub crawl to Alpena! We ended up stopping at three places with two beers at each joint with about a half hour between them. Here is a little about each place.

Pat’s Bar – Rose City
I didn’t get a picture for this place because I hadn’t gotten the idea for the pub crawl blog yet and we went a different way home so I couldn’t snap one then. This place had a nice set-up. Kind of long and not so thin, with the bar and kitchen along one side with tables and pool tables in the middle and along the other side with Karaoke/band stage at one end. There was a small group of locals with the reality TV show “coyote ugly” on the tube. We had two High life bottles a piece. The bartender was “up north cute” as I like to say. Pretty cool, I would stop there again.

Big T’s Roadhouse – Mio
(pics are from my phone so they aren't that great)
Here is Fraggle standing next to the sign, what a name! This place was way cool and seemed like it could be a rowdy place! It was kinda L shaped with a pool table at one end, stage in the middle corner, with a ping pong table at the other end. It was getting a little later in the afternoon so there was your hardcore whisky drinkers sittin’ at one end and a “starting to get rowdy” group sitting at 4 tables that were put together. This place didn’t have bottles so we went with two Bud drafts. Again the bartender was “up north cute!” We chatted with the whisky drinkers a little about the snow commin’ in and what not and really faught the urge to play Club Keno (I never win so I quit playing). We got a coupel weird looks because we had our cell phones out and sending text messages and what not… City Boys I guess.

Wild Turkey Saloon – Fairview (I think)




This place was small and cozy, the heat was up but it felt good ‘cause it was a little nipple out. It looked as if they bought a bunch of tables and stuff from a hooter’s that was closed. The bartender, not so cute but she was young and looked like she liked to party, said we looked too cute not to card! A little more chat with the locals this time, asking where the places to be were and where to go when we get to Alpena. They were extremely helpful, the bad news was that there wasn’t another place from there to the cabin, but the good news was that there was a place in Alpena that has Ladies Night on Tuesday night!

So then we get to the cabin, started a fire in the furnace and turned the water on. It was my first time turning it on by myself but it turned out good. I just had a little problem with a pipe connection where the washer fell on the ground, but good ol’ Fraggle found it!

Then we wanted to hit up what I thought was called the Spratt Tavern but it is now called the Hub Bar or something. We weren’t there for very long because there was about 10 people in there, and all dudes that looked like they could kick our asses!
Next was Bogoart’s, the place that supposedly had ladies night. It was pretty busy, there was a couple groups of people, a couple cuties, and Karaoke! We sang it up for a while trying to get the place fired up but it wasn’t working. There wasn’t very many other people singing but it was fun, everybody was like, “Who are these tools?”

Fraggle singin'



We had fun, even managed to make a couple friends. One was an older woman, or seemed to be. Fraggle said that she was actually a man, very possible, she said that she was a singer and traveled all over the world singing with the likes of Madonna and James Brown amongst others, but oddly enough, she wouldn’t do any karaoke.

Fraggle and the Man lady


And there was a group of younger peeps who invited us to the next bar. Kind of difficult directions but we found it. The Sports Page. Kinda plane Jane, a lot of younger peeps. We played pool and chatted with a couple ladies.

Then it was time to go home. It was a little difficult journey. First we weren’t familiar with the area and we were turned around a little with the crazy directions to the last bar. It took us two stops and two city maps to finally find Werth Rd where the cabin is. It was about a 25 min trip that took us about an hour. But we finally made it. A couple Yakedoc shots and a couple nite cap beers later we were off to bed.
Overall it was a great trip, I didn’t get as much done in the job hunting field as I hoped because we didn’t end up with that much time, we were trying to get back to a rugby meeting by 6pm that night. I did get a paper with a couple leads for employment and saw a good couple few box cutter super shops like Home Depot and what not to look at.
We caught the snow storm on the way home so it took a while and we didn’t make the meeting, oh-well.

Definitely a great trip, we are actually thinking about doing it again this weekend because yet another rugby match was cancelled if anybody is interested!

We’ll see what’s up.