G'Day From A Famous Sydney Walker!

Dear Pembroke Pines Friends:

I have enjoyed looking at your city’s web site. Its plethora of recreational parks convinces me that Pembroke Pines is as good as its name sounds.

My recreation is walking the streets of Sydney, and I am wondering whether you would like to join me in a kind of “walking sister cities” odyssey. Our doctors tell us that walking is marvelous for our health; indeed, my heart specialist told me this month that I have every chance of living to 100 (seven years to go) and that that is “all because of walking.” After my wife passed away in 2002, I knew that I had to pick myself up because she wouldn’t want me to just sit around all day. So I started walking a couple of streets in my suburb each day, but soon got bored. Changing to doing different streets every day, and then every street in another suburb before starting more suburbs, was the cure. I’ve now walked every street in 243 Sydney suburbs, which is about 4500 kilometers, and have been amazed at the treasures of our city – the beauty, the unusual and the bizarre - that we miss when driving. My sons took pictures of the places so much worth remembering, also for later generations, and this is how the *Alan Waddell walks the Sydney Streets * photo book started.

Maybe we could compare discoveries, such as the outstanding and the crazy mail-boxes, houses, fences, streets and even toilets of our cities.

In any case, It would be a thrill for me if I could become associated, through a common interest, with Pembroke Pines people conquering every street there!

Please can I wish you all the best, and finish the way I should have started: “G’day, mates.”

Alan Waddell

Visit Walk Sydney Streets
www.walksydneystreets.net

September 21, 2007 in Sydney

Sydney's Channel Nine reporter Dale Paget was there as Alan completed his 250th suburb, Northbridge. The event was promoted by a video on the network's web site and covered in their 6pm news (also screened on Qantas flights). 

"In Bronte, Chesterfield Parade starts at Waverley Cemetery; its archway of trees shows new life as the branches stretch heavenwards."... comments Alan as he walks!