Day 31 was a a routine day with nothing but a straight shot I-94 blast from Bismarck, ND to Fargo, ND. With the knowledge that we were blessed with an abundance of time and a positive forecast we planned to have a lazy morning and get a late start towards Fargo to avoid arriving at the hotel prior to check in time.
At about 9:30 A.M. I pulled open the curtains of our hotel room and saw a wall of black clouds to the West and sunshine to the East. We had two choices wait and see if it clears out or get moving fast and try to stay ahead of it. After a quick check of the weather we opted for choice #2. A quick check out and we saddled up while it started to drizzle. A few minutes later we were blasting down I-94 at 75+ mph and it was close to an hour before we were comfortably clear of the storm front. With every rest stop along the way the front would close in on us once again but not to a point where I thought we would get caught.
We made it to Fargo without troubles, got a bit of shopping in and then decided we couldn't wait any longer to get some cover. We are now holed up in the hotel amid severe storm warnings including large hail, fortunately for us the tornado warnings appear to be in counties South of our location.
I learned today that the windshield supplied with my Reckless fairing is capable of withstanding a bird strike at 70 + mph, it's permanently marked but didn't break.
Mileage covered today was 421.6 km bringing our trip total to 9990.8 km.
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