North Dakota

As winter approaches in North Dakota (the least visited state in the USA) a very handy device is to be found at - http://www.in-forum.com/weather/index.cfm?page=windchill - which enables you to calculate the windchill factor at any given temperature-wind speed combination. It's very useful, and allows you to avoid getting frost bite.

Interestingly, the State of North Dakota contains within it's boundaries, the exact geographical centre of the North American continent, marked by a garden, as well as the largest buffalo statue in the world on a hill overlooking one of the state highways, and a Coen brothers film named after one of its principal cities - Fargo.

Beautiful as well as desolate, the Great Plains state was home to millions of buffalo in the hey day of the great beast, and also the location of the book Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - about a massacre of horrific proportions, when native americans were wiped out by US soldiers - still busy in Iraq of course, helping nations achieve democracy the American way.

State Capital, Bismarck houses one of the finest collections in the world, of agricultural equipment through the ages, in its fine looking Museum of Agriculture and Farming.