Poor Parental Feeling

　　The first thing that caused my concern when I got up in the morning was about my daughter, who had spent a night in an unfamiliar house. I had already planned to visit Toronto Islands, but I decided to stop by her school to see if she could get to the school by herself.
　　I bought a one-day free ticket for transportation including subway, streetcars and buses. This single ticket allowed me to utilize all these transport means alike. It was very helpful that I didn't have to worry about fares. I could get on and off them wherever I wanted.
　　As I wanted to look at her school and see its locale, I arrived rather early and took a walk around the area in which my daughter would spend a month. As a result, I felt a sense of security. I dropped in at a Tim Hortons near her school to have breakfast. This franchise is seldom seen in Japan, or perhaps there aren't any in Japan, I thought, so I took a snap of my breakfast.
　　The school requested that students should check in the school between 8:00 and 8:30 a.m. on the first day. However, she didn't show up at 8:00 a.m. I was afraid that she had lost her way to the school, and was concerned for some time, but finally she appeared at 8:25 a.m.

(Vocabulary)
parental feeling/tenderness  親心
locale [C](フォーマル) 場所, (事件・事故などの) 現場; (小説・映画などの) 舞台, 背景（地）=setting
a sense/feeling of security  安心感

(Vocabulary from comments)
for better or (for) worse  良くも悪くも; (結婚の誓いの言葉で用いて) 生涯いついかなる時も
Tim Hortons はカナダと米国のごく一部（？）にだけあるようです。スタバのような店です。

Comments

[KUMO]

Dear Travis
Thank you for your comment. I understood.

[Travis]

I think there are some US locations now as well, mainly in the northern states but I do not know if there are any outside of North America. For better or worse it is a Canadian icon.

[Peter]

Tim Hortons is only in Canada.