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I’m Nowhere near OK, USA

A few weeks ago I decided to go somewhere. While I’m usually quite open (read “public”) to where I’m traveling, this time I wanted to keep it discreet. Unfortunately, I came to rely on Dopplr to tell people where I’m going and more importantly, friends, family and colleagues have come to rely on my dopplr schedule to know when I’m in town or on the road.

So, I needed to say that I was travelling, but could not say where. The idea of entering a fake destination crossed my mind (Japan, Korea, Equator) but none of them appealed to me. That’s when I started looking for “Somewhere” using dopplr and google maps. The first few attempts did not lead to anything overly interesting. The next idea was instead of going somewhere I was going to go “nowhere”.

What a surprise to discover that Nowhere, OK, USA existed. Does it really? Google maps places it in the middle of the US. It seems like a lovely place. And wikipedia has a few other suggestions, including Norfolk, England.

As I’m getting ready to publish this post, I looked quickly over at the Dopplr blog and found today’s story quite appropriate:

What do the following words have in common?
mobile, page, nice, for, name, union, best, dollar, tours, split, accident, mile, list, central, deal, deposit, trip, this, back, carry, center, start, kilo, purchase, transfer, goes, plan, media, sale, downtown, fully, luck, normal, comfort, call, local