I would definitely say that food brings people together.

Food in of itself is a culture.

I think that a lot of people enjoy coming to a festival where they can try so many different foods all at once and experience different cultures.

We have so many Mexican food trucks here.

We've had acai bowls, barbecue.

All of these different cultures have been absolutely wonderful to experience, and you have them all at your fingertips at our festival.

So I grew up originally in Green River, and I was used to seeing one or two trucks maybe.

When I moved to Rawlins about three and a half years ago, I was shocked to see five or six trucks all at once in the parking lots.

And so I was like, "Wow, we have so many food trucks here.

Wouldn't it be amazing if we had a festival to celebrate them?"

Our very first year, we had over 1,000 people here.

We had several trucks and vendors sell out, and each year we've maintained at least 1,000 people.

This year we're thinking we probably pulled at least 1,500.

My name is Michaela Strand, and I own Ranch Eats Food Truck with my husband, Troy.

We're from Cheyenne.

That's where we're based, and we thought there was kind of a need for this type of food in Cheyenne, so we opened Ranch Eats.

So we serve sort of American rustic cuisine.

We have brisket sandwiches, Phillies.

We're kind of famous for our Philly.

We love coming to this.

It's a good one.

We like to eat at all the other trucks.

It's kind of a fun place for all of Wyoming's trucks to come together.

It's a great event.

Wyoming's a crazy place to run a food truck.

It's not like California, Arizona.

It can be snowing or 100 degrees, and you sort of just got to roll with the punches and do it.

So I commend everybody that does it, because it's not easy work, but we sure love it.

So Ohana means family.

It is a drink truck, non-alcoholic beverages, fruity flavors, lemonades, iced teas, and sodas.

We've enjoyed being here at the Taste of Wyoming Festival, and we're trying to have a three-peat win today.

We've had the People's Choice for two years straight, along with WyoBowls.

This so far has been the biggest year as far as vendors and food trucks go, so it was a really exciting one.

And yeah, people get to vote for who their favorite food trucks were.

When I bought it, I thought that it would be like a four or five hour a day gig, and it's a lot of work.

It's a lot of stocking, restocking, planning, preparing, but it's so fun and we get to meet so many awesome people and build a lot of great relationships with the community, and it's been really fun working alongside all the other trucks.

We've made a lot of really good friends, and it's growing, and it's healthy, and we all have great relationships, and it's just really fun.

We definitely have plans for growing.

We have already been looking at the map of the fairgrounds on figuring out how to expand the food trucks that we offer.

We've also had a lot of food trucks reaching out to us.

In the past, we had been capping it at 20.

I think in the future years we're going to be able to surpass that number quite a lot.

One of my main things in this festival is, of course, boosting the economy in Rawlins.

It also helps other economies around the state from our vendors who are from Casper or Cheyenne.

They're able to take that money that they earn today and take it back to their own communities and spend it.

So it's been something that's very important that Wyoming is the winner in all of this.