Amy Crossed is out to discover her hometown. She’s walking every single street in the City of Rochester.

“I really love the city I grew up in, but there was so much I didn’t understand,” Crossed said.

The first step towards this goal took place 6 years ago.

Crossed asked City Hall how many miles of streets, roads and boulevards fell within the city limits. No one knew.

Crossed still doesn’t know, even though she’s only one neighborhood away from completion.

She doesn’t measure out her walks on her smartphone, nor does she use any map app; she unfolds and folds a trusty paper map. She also doesn’t take a lot of pictures or post much on social media.

“I didn’t want this to seem like this is a spectacle for me,” Crossed said.

It wasn’t in memory of someone, either, or for any charity. Crossed began this quixotic journey after Trayvon Martin was shot.

Believing no one should be seen as an outsider in their own town, she, a white woman, decided passing through minority neighborhoods might make some, if super small, difference.

“I didn’t live anywhere near them, I wasn’t part of their community, but they invited me in to experience that, it was nice,” Crossed said.

Not everything about this has been nice, though. Crossed has seen the scope of poverty in Rochester saying it’s not isolated to the crime-ridden neighborhoods.

“I definitely think our city is a hurting city,” Crossed said.

Amid the boarded-up homes, though, Crossed as seen the care put into local gardens and intricate architecture of homes and office buildings that have withstood the test of time.

“There’s a breakthrough moment that waiting, I just feel it, the city is on the verge of real potential goodness,” Crossed said.

Crossed has one last walk ahead of her. It’s in Charlotte.

She might just end at the edge of Lake Ontario and after all this walking, should she choose, Crossed could always go for a swim.