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I remember reading about Ed Stafford walking the entire length of the Amazon 10+ years ago. The Amazon is the perfect exotic place to imagine adventuring and exploring- but in his travels, he's running into people all the time. It's exotic to me, but there are people living there who I'm sure find it as normal as I find my local park.

And that's what this reminds me of- I love the idea of exploring where you are.There are many things close to home that can be experienced, not just the foreign destinations I imagine from an adventure novel.

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There's a great YouTube channel, 'Beau Miles' [0] with videos focusing on finding amazing places near your home:

Here's one he did on an old railway near his house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxCghemtjjM

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm325cMiw9B15xl22_gr6Dw

Thanks for sharing, that's great! I watched the railway video and it's just what I mean- fascinating things that are too often ignored.

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

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

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

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.

I remember this one time I went kayaking with this hipster manly man type that had a wierd looking purse-like waterproof bag.

It was obviously a prop for him so that people would ask about it so I played my part and asked him about it.

Sure enough, he replied "that's not a purse and I went on an adventure with it on the Amazon".

So I replied "Adventure purse it is, then! What kind of adventure was that, were you in danger at any point?"

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