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How Time Flies

18 09 2022

Wow, how time flies. Since our last outing to the Montana Owners Group meeting in Dolores in early June, we’ve managed only one trip. Our annual trip to Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, WY

Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo

Cheyenne Frontier Days, Frontier Nights Stage

As in past years, we spent the full 10 days at AB Camping RV park and enjoyed both concerts and rodeo. Our concert schedule this year included Dierks Bentley, Parker McCullum, Sam Hunt and Brooks & Dunn. We also attended a day of rodeo and spent an afternoon on the midway. After CFD we were once again back at Boyd Lake to catch up with friends and family in Northern Colorado.

Union Pacific ‘Big Boy’ 4014 in Cheyenne

So, in over 3 months, we’ve spent only 13 nights in the RV. However, we’ve been busy with lots of house guests and some non-RV travels. We also just returned home from Europe, where we spent 3 nights enjoying London before flying to Rome to sail a 10-night Greek Isles cruise onboard the new Celebrity Beyond.

&Juliet at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre

Celebrity Beyond in Santorini, Greece

RV travel continues later this week with a trip to Hecla Junction, one our favorite campgrounds in Colorado. We’ll also spend closing weekend at Circle the Wagons RV park in La Veta and then a week at Chatfield State Park near Denver. That will take us into the last week of October, and most likely the undesirable task of winterizing the RV.

But, let’s not get into winterization yet – more from Hecla Junction later this week…

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Categories : Summer Camping 2022

Concerts, Cowboys and Carnival

22 07 2017

Cheyenne Frontier Nights

We’re back in Cheyenne for the 121st performance of Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo, Frontier Nights and the Carnival Midway. Unlike in the past, attending 1 or 2 concerts and making a long weekend of it, this year we’re all-in – arriving on Friday the 21^st and staying all 10 days of Frontier Days until next Sunday the 30^th. We have tickets to 4 concerts, Little Big Town on Saturday evening, Luke Bryan on Wednesday, Thomas Rhett on Thursday and Jason Aldean to wrap things up next Saturday. With more than a week in Cheyenne we hope to enjoy more of the events that we’ve missed in past years – Rodeo, Pancake Breakfast, Grand Parade, Indian Village, Chuckwagon Cookoff and the USAF Thunderbirds.

Last Year, 2016, Cheyenne Hail

And, once again we’re parked at AB Camping, one of our favorite RV Parks. We’re in sites S13 & S14, in the middle row of the southern section. These two sites along with several others provide welcome shade during the warm July afternoons. Last year for the Florida Georgia Line concert we were in sites S10 and S21 for the “Mother-of-all-Hailstorms” – that produced about $10,000 damage to every RV roof in the campground, tore down tree limbs, shattered auto glass and totaled tow vehicles.

After a great 10 (hail-free) days, we’ve already opted to return next year. Thanks Marc and Jane for once again doing a great job of hosting all of these RVs during a VERY busy time. From making sure we had shuttle services when the city cancelled just 3 days before CFD opened, to providing us early morning breakfast burritos and late night BBQ snacks and everything else you do – a very heart felt Thank You!

Oh, our success rate was fairly high. We had dinner on the Midway, attended a Rodeo, saw the Indian Village and Frontier Town, listened to Micheal Martin Murphey at the Sidewinder Saloon and of course checked out the Buckin’A Saloon a few times. The USAF Thunderbirds airshow was cancelled due to weather and we still haven’t had a Pancake Breakfast or watched the Grand Parade or tasted at the Chuckwagon Cookoff. More for next year!