I was riding home from the Redmond, Oregon BMW MOA Rally with a 2050 mile route planned for two days. At ~1000 miles as it was starting to get dark I could have stopped in the town I was in to rest and finish up the next day. I was feeling good and making good time and the weather was cooperating and my first BBG was within reach so I pressed on. Rural Wyoming is very dark in the middle of the night.
I was in the middle of nowhere, predawn and within 100 miles of 1500 when the rain started and then hail. No shelter anywhere, no trees, no nothing. I had to continue and hope the hail didn't get any worse. I was getting close to 1500 miles, still raining and I had < 20 minutes to collect a DBR to prove the BBG. I finally came in to Mission, SD, soaked and tired and got a DBR receipt at 1506 miles for a donut (quicker than pumping gas) and just made it in time. I then dropped the donut on the ground.
At this point with the successful BBG completed, I realized a SS2000 Gold would be relatively easy to complete at a reduced pace. I continued on to stay ahead of the frog strangler I just drove through and I needed a break when I made it to MN and realized the clouds were going to catch me. I got some breakfast at McD's and waited about an hour for the storm to pass. The rest was just following the storm home but avoiding most of the rain.
I completed the SS2000G. The next day while completing the ride submission I looked up Mission, SD and found it is in the central time zone! I had another hour to complete the BBG!
That's my humorous dealing with timezones.
p.s - Sometime later when cleaning the bike I found the grill under my headlight was broken with a bunch of feathers remaining. A kamikaze bird must have hit during the hailstorm.
