9/20/14 - Day 6

Our goal today was to look at cars.  Our friend, Lane, told us about a local car show where there would be about 100 cars at a small park in Keystone, WY, about 40 miles away, It took about an hour to get there. The road crews had just freshly oiled parts of the highway and it was very slow going with a clean car ready a the show and shine. We had preregistered as number 33.  I highest number I could see on my first loop around the park at 10 AM was 127 but by noon it was up to 210 and the parking was getting tight. We met a lot on great people and collected  136.00 for  JDRF.   We handed out envelopes for those that did not have internet connections and those with connections we gave cards so they could donate online and follow our travels. Lane was unable to come with us and had to miss out.  His grandson was racing in the Strider Bike series final in Rapid City SD.  Grandchildren trump everything!

There were a lot of very nice cars at the show.  The fellow next to us in the red Chevelle had done all the work himself except for the upholstery and a fuel injected, supercharged engine. The nice thing about this show was almost all of the cars were driven there.  There weren't many trailer queens.

LS-7  427,  654hp, nice Foos wheels

The show was over at 3pm.  We did not win the door prize a set of Stanley miniature screwdrivers.  There was no contest category for coming the longest distance.  We decided to fill the rest of the afternoon by going back to Sturgis for the Sturgis Main Street Octoberfest.

We arrived at Sturgis at 5:15;  15 minutes after the Oktoberfest ended at 5:00.  This is not the busting Mt Angle Oktoberfest or even the Widmer Brothers Brewery Oktoberfest. By the time we got parked and were looking for food we were the only tourists on Main Street.  We looked around for brats and found them at the Knucklehead Brewery. I have never had a brat that was boiled and not grilled.  We now have a base to judge the east-of-the-Rockies bratwurst as we head into Minnesota  and Wisconsin. We watched the news Saturday night and they said it was the 1st annual Oktoberfest, I am sure it will grow and next years will be bigger and even better.  

On the trip back to Custer we saw a dozen or so deer but no big horn sheep,  even though the sign told us to watch out for them.  We only had one close call with a deer and it wasn't that close.  Tomorrow is a rest day to do some laundry repack car and maybe watch some football!