Walk Every Street is a love letter to my hometown, Somerville, MA.
Somerville is a great small city in the urban core just northwest of Boston. The town is about 3 miles long one way and 2 miles at its widest the other. Our City government says we have 250 miles of sidewalk. I’m going to walk every single one of them.
The Rules
Because structure helps motivation, I’ve set some completely arbitrary rules for how I will walk every street.
No detours. I will walk a street from one end to the other without walking a different street.
Prove it. I’ll take and post a picture at the beginning of a street and at the end of a street.
Take in the scene. Going into a shop or a park is not a detour. Stopping to chat, to look around, to take pictures—these are not detours.
This is an adventure, not a race. I don’t have to walk a new street every day and I don’t have to walk fast.
May I walk another? Of course I can walk more than one street in a day!
Sidewalks. Walking on sidewalks is much safer than in streets. So I don’t have to walk any street without a sidewalk…unless I want to.
