Livermore Rodeo Cowboy Headquarters

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Sep 5th, 2017

This year's Livermore Rodeo has now come and gone.  Yee haw.Strange that you'd find a rodeo in the San Francisco Bay Area.  But surprise:  There are THREE rodeos, including the Rowell Ranch Rodeo in the hills between Castro Valley and Dublin, and Daly City's Cow Palace still has one every year.The positive thing about "the world's fastest rodeo" is that they have Family Night.  $1 entry, free parking, $1 for both hot dogs and Coke.  This allowed this cash-strapped family to be able to enjoy a night with the cowboys.  Only my Texas-bred Hunny had been to a rodeo before, and the girl wanted to see one in person, so we could visit it for less than $50.  I guess it would be a "trial run", see if you'd like a rodeo before shelling out the $50 to see something that would bore you to tears.To be open, I *was* bored to tears.  I'm not a cowboy at all, even though I grew up roughly 10 miles from the self-proclaimed Cowboy Capital Of The World (Oakdale).  The girl liked the mechanical bull and jumpy springy thingy, thought the horses were pretty, and she met the rodeo princesses, but then got antsy during the actual contest.  Still, I saw that this is not a fake show.  It's a major pro event.  They had team roping that night, and it looked like the pros and the area ranchers both competed to get the lowest time.  Those who are part cowboy, or all cowboy, will not be disappointed.Of the four rodeos I mentioned, this is the most inconvenient one to go to.  It's a pretty long drive from I-580, south of downtown, within walking distance of nothing.  It looks like it's been here for generations, was surrounded by ranchland, and then the housing developments grew around it.  I'd imagine that traffic on Saturday and Sunday is horrendous.  The good news is that you do go through downtown Livermore, where there are many places to enjoy an after-rodeo dinner.It's a good one if you like this sort of thing.
Jun 15th, 2017