Cowboy Country

We decided to make our way back to Minnesota via South Dakota instead of our usual drive across Nebraska and Iowa.  That meant we would drive up through Cheyenne, Wyoming, one of my favorite cities ever.  We stayed a few days & even though the weather was a little cloudy and cool, we got out to see some of the old part of town.

                     The Wrangler is a hotel turned into a Boot Barn - fun outside & fun inside!

The old railway station - beautifully restored and now home to the visitors center, various city offices & a local brewery.

I didn't get a date on when this church was built, but it sure looked like it was built to last.

There is a park in the middle of old Cheyenne that has music & food most summer evenings.  This horse was made of iron tools and machine parts. 

 

The thing I most wanted to see in Cheyenne were the painted boots.  If y'all know me very well, y'all know my obsession with cowboy boot - well, here there are 19 eight foot tall hand painted cowboy boots to see!

Ron with a boot

So, that's a few of them. 

Of course, I had to have a boot of my own from Cheyenne.

After our walk around old Cheyenne, we toasted the day with a local brew

at the Cheyenne Brewery - good beer!

Ron went with Fatty Slims Ale & I had the Cut Leaf IPA-

nice hoppy beer with a mint finish!