Nebraska? Yep, Nebraska.

Sidney Nebraska, that's where I have been for the past couple of days and let me just say, there just isn't much out there.

I was doing a Chevy event at a Cabela's 50 year celebration. We were at the fairgrounds in Sidney. The turnout was pretty impressive. But after I talked to some of the locals, it's mostly because there's really not much else to do in Sidney and most of the people in the town seem to work for Cabela's, lol. No, but really, they do.

Sidney had a sign just outside the town that said the population was a bit over 6,000 people! Seriously, I attend race events with more people than that, and this is an entire town! lol.

But I actually thought it was pretty cool. The downtown area was really neat. The town prided themselves on keeping the historic integrity in tact as much as possible. I didn't get to check anything out other than to drive through the town a few times, and even though I thought it was kind of cool, I think it would be like living on a beautiful island in the Caribbean, Great at first, but then you realize how small it is and you just want to go somewhere else. But maybe that's just me. Some of the people I met had lived there for 30-40 years!

The event itself was pretty neat. They had a lot of things for the kids to do. A lot of air inflated things, laser tag, the National Guard had a timed obstacle course, Shooting lessons and the local high school football team provided free food, food and more food. I had some AWESOME ribs.

We had a lot of vehicles for people to drive, Cruze RS, Cruze ECO, Silverado 1500, Silverado 2500 diesel, Traverse, Equinox, Malibu, Tahoe Hybrid, Corvette Grand Sport, Camaro and a Camaro SS convertable. Most people wanted to drive the trucks and the Corvette and Camaro, but everthing got driven.

Here are some pics:

 This was the common sight as we drove in from Denver

 Once we got close to Sidney there were quite a lot of these hills. This was the only one I saw with the crosses 

 Took a couple shots from my hotel as the sun was going down.

 Tried to get a shot of this rainbow in the evening but it was too far away.

 Another one of those hills

Below: I just started randomly parking the truck at different spots and taking pictures. 

 Our spot at the fairgrounds

 Three of the most popular cars of the day.

Registration

So although we were seemingly in the middle of nowhere, we had a decent turnout and the people were very nice. A good event, would have liked to had another day to check out the town but oh well, maybe another time. 

Back to SC in the morning to see my wonderful wife and my boys. God has blessed me with and incredible family and this whole "absence makes the heart grow fonder" couldn't be more true. I seem to miss them now as soon as I leave for the airport to go out of town. But it sure makes coming home GREAT!   Don't spend so much time concerned with what you're gonna do next, that you forget to enjoy where you are now. You'll miss a lot of life that way. 

JM