I Shoulda Listened to Dave

On a late-summer (2008) trip to Minneapolis, I had the opportunity to visit North Dakota. No, North Dakota was not on my way, but I hope to one day bring my states visited count up to 50 and I couldn’t fathom one single reason why I would ever actually go there. I don’t wish to insinuate that North Dakota has no viable reason to maintain a department of tourism (and could therefore save its taxpayers millions of dollars) nor insult this state in any way, (as did columnist Dave Barry, who subsequently now has a sewage processing plant at Grand Forks named in his honor and has since adamantly warned all writers to NOT mess with this state), it's just that North Dakota is so . . . READ MORE