There aren't beaches in Cheyenne, Garth.

We left our Yellowstone campground on the morning of 7/22.  We pulled over at a turnout to get a good pic of Grand Tetons.

One of our (well, my) must-sees at the beginning of this trip was Mt. Rushmore.  After looking at the map, we decided we would like to just stick to interstates and start heading home.  We ended up having a pretty boring drive to Cheyenne.  I called a campground I found on my AllStays app (well worth the $10 if you have an RV), and was told they had one spot, but only for that night. Fine with us, we're just staying one.

The campground check-in was kind of chaotic and this guy told us he would show us to our spot and we could just come pay later.  Chuck & I walked Ellie over after we settled in.  They have BBQ every night in the summer, and that's where we had to go pay, so I waited outside with Ellie.  He came out with a lb. of BBQ and was all excited.  We had stumbled into Cheyenne Frontier Days and it's like the world's biggest rodeo (Ben was skeptical and kept asking what the credential for that was.)  There was a shuttle bus at a high school about 2 blocks away, so after supper, we walked down there and just missed one.  The next was 30 min., so we sat there and talked with some other campers who walked over.  They told us the event was championship bull riding and had already bought their tickets.  They made us a little nervous about it being sold out, but we figured we'd just walk around and take a shuttle back if necessary.

It was a huge carnival/county fair atmosphere, but we didn't do any of that, because we did get tickets to the bull riding (2nd row from the top!), and it had started as we were walking in.  We had a great time.  It was very exciting. Everybody was great - the bull riders, the clowns, the guys who lasso the bulls when they won't leave.

There was a rider from Statesville, so we cheered louder for him.  I noticed a man and boy right in front of us were, too, so I asked if they were from NC.  He said yes, so I said we were from Concord area.  So were they!  I asked the boy where he went to school and he said Winkler, which is probably the next closest middle school to us.  Small world indeed.

There were fireworks after, but we were so high up in the stands we couldn't see them for the overhang roof thingy.  So, we left to go catch the shuttle bus.  The bus was there and already full, with 3 people standing.  The bus driver told the 3 in front of us that they were full and he wouldn't let anymore on.  So, we waited another 30 min.  The bus that came back had a woman driving, and she let almost everyone in the state on.  We were pretty sure we were going to tip over, but thankfully we didn't.  We did drag pulling into the high school lot, though.