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A amateur traveler, episode 523.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about flatlands and badlands, cowboys and Native Americans,

Louis and Clark and Sacaguea, as we go to North Dakota.

I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not to the day.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. We'll hear more from

our sponsor away later on but first we're going to talk about the least visited

state in the United States and make a case a a good case I think, for why you might want to go there.

And found out what it is our guest said that made me laugh more than anything I think in any recent show,

as we talk about North Dakota.

I'd like to welcome to the show Derek Schiff,

who's coming to us from the proud state of North Dakota

and come to talk to us about the same.

Derek, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

I'm actually quite excited to share my home state with you guys.

Now, North Dakota is, when ranked in tourism in the 50 states in the United States 50th and

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