Nowhere in Particular

Every town has a road you've never turned down. Every neighborhood has a block you've never walked. This is a reason to go. You get a bearing and a distance. That's it. No route, no blue line, no picture of what you're looking for. Somewhere out there is a real thing worth seeing, and the only way to reach it is to read the landscape and work it out. Wrong turns are the game. So is arguing about which road it is. Someone drives and someone reads the instrument, and the one reading it has the better job. WHAT IT IS A compass bearing to a real place near you, and nothing else. You say how far you're willing to go, on foot or by car. The app picks somewhere inside that and points at it. It never tells you what you're looking for, never routes you, and never says you're going the wrong way. Most places tell you what they are when you get there — a plaque, a name, a sign. Some don't. Some…