A Man Who Swam the Seine

Re:A Man Who Swam the Seine by dhosek on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:55PM (#28475120)

I have a project that got paused by grad school and kids that I hope to return to of walking all the streets of the suburb where I live in alphabetical order. I think one of the things that helped pause it is that the next street will be a seven mile walk once you factor in getting to the starting and ending points of the street.

As far as I got is at http://walkingoakpark.blogspot.com

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Re:A Man Who Swam the Seine by basementcat on Thursday September 09, 2021 @06:41PM (#28475535)

A gentleman did something like that in NYC and a filmmaker made a documentary about it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Before_Your_Feet

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Re:A Man Who Swam the Seine by sandermvanvliet on Friday September 10, 2021 @01:35AM (#28478154)

Last year there was a guy in Rotterdam who moved there and decided to get to know the city better… by running through every street! I’ve met the guy once when I was out running myself and pretty much the only thing he used was a small pocket map and a marker to track where he’d been.

Took him a while to complete all of it but it sure sounded like a cool project.

Edit: I’ve just found this: https://runallthestreets.com/resources/ turns out that there are way more people doing this.

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Re:A Man Who Swam the Seine by ithinkso on Thursday September 09, 2021 @08:14PM (#28476288)

Slightly different take on this - there is a dude[0] who attempts to cross countries (Wales, Norway) on foot in a straight line. His videos are highly entertaining

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoWizard

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