Cheyenne Travel Blogs

My trips to Wyoming are amazing. My mother lives there so I know all the hot spots. I actually plan on going back at the end of this month. The best time to go is at the end of this month when they have Cheyenne Fontier Days. Its a huge rodeo with lots of drinking and good times. It's very beautifu…

We got up checked out and drove to Scottsbluff National Monument. It is up on the top of Scott's Bluff. We only spent about 45 minutes or so there. The kids were anxious to be on their way home and weren't the least little bit interested in the history. I wanted to stop in Cheyenne, and pay my resp…

I have always thought of myself as the oldest of the four children raised by my parents. But, in truth, there was a sibling, a brother, who came before me. He, David Charles, was born on February 14, 1962.   Over the course of the years, and especially as I researched and wrote a family his…

Seven states in three weeks.

I recently traveled to Cheyenne, WY to visit a friend of mine who is living out there. The last week in July is Frontier Days which is the biggest event in Cheyenne all year. Its 10 days or rodeos, concerts and carnival rides. It was my first rodeo. I flew into Denver which is like an hour and a half from Cheyenne. We went to the rodeo, went to the Gretchen Wilson, Cowboy Troy and Big n Rich concert and then went to Estes Park, CO. Took a 3 hour horseback ride into the Rockies.

It started innocently enough; I visited Juneau, Alaska in June 1993 and explored the State Capitol building. A few months later, It was Montgomery, Alabama's. In the course of time, it became a hobby. Near the end it became a bit of an obsession. Then, in August of 2006, I visited my 50th US State Capitol building in Pierre, SD. (Yeh!) Yes, I know, I'm a geography nerd.... All entries are maintained in on the 'first visit' date.

After driving past about 500,000 Haliburton trucks and cattle in the middle of Wyoming, we stop for gas in Cheyenne. 

Showing my friend around my state

Wyoming, Colorado, & New Mexico

The hitching trip to florida

I drove with a friend for two months all around the country when I turned 18. We left with about $35.18.

Some pictures of my travels through the mid-western United States during the Summer of 2007.

We left Wendover at 6am, and headed east on I-80. Watching the sun rise while crossing the Bonneville Salt Flats was quiet and beautiful. The sky was a deep red in color, and you could just make out the shape of the mountains all around us. As the sun rose in the sky, we could see all the clouds su…

7 days to see as much as possible on my first major trip west of the Mississippi (I lost most of the pics due to computer probs but I tried to include helpful info).