In the last edition of The Log, I wrote about the first part of my journey to visit all 50 state capital buildings of the USA. In that feature, we broke off after 24 days and 36 state capitals, as I was travelling through Wisconsin. On day 25,I spent a pleasant morning in St Paul, Minnesota, and it was then that I encountered snow again. A night in a small town called Alexandria was followed by a couple of days traversing the flat, wide-open and snowbound Dakotas. It seemed that the biggest buildings in these rather uninspiring northern states were the grain silos dotted alongside the freeway. However, the largest building encountered in North Dakota was the state capital in Bismarck: a very tall, plain, concrete office block attached to a smaller, plain, circular concrete building.
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