Duluth to Bismark

Hi all,
Thanks to Best Buy in Duluth for having the new netbook that works so I can see Jack at night and type when I can...
So from what I hear the storms in NJ are pretty bad. I also hear that is in 90+ and 94% humidity. Please don't hate but out here in Duluth Minnesota it was a brisk 61 degrees with no humidity and a breeze of about 10mph. Needless to say a day of Chaps and Leather jackets were in order.(Yes I had other clothes on under the chaps sorry to disappoint)

One has to question the design of Duluth, It's built on the side of a mountain facing Lake Superior...um...cold, lake effect snow people?

The secondary roads are absolutely incredible...2 lane blacktop with an average speed of 65 and next to no cars for 60+ miles...a small town and back to 60+mph.

The rest of Minnesota was just spectacular...welcome to America!

And then there is North Dakota....Welcome and poof construction...
Fargo gave us dark clouds and no temp changes to note(mid 50's)
About 10 miles into ND we hit our first of 4 really bad storms. Radical temp drops(mid 40's) and lots of wind and rain for over 20+miles.
Then the sun comes out dries the roads and the riders, and then another storm.

The last one was fun...30 miles outside of Bismark, we hit a wall of water...the sky got black...not dark, BLACK, the temp dropped into the 40's and a wall of wind and water like I havn't seen in a long time. lighting on the horizon while amazing was scary for a rider with no overpasses for shelter.

about 3 miles outside of Bismark the sky opened, sun shined and the horizon went from praries and ta-tonkas to a city..an honset to goodness city.

Thanks to the Best Western for hooking us up with the rate and during check-in )looking like 2 drowned rats) giving us drink tickets good for 2 Sam Adams 22oz drafts!

Gonna look at the route in the am...we are about 120miles off schedule...decision time.