When a walk became a hike.
All of these distances are using Yahoo Maps and are
approximate.
The walk to Trenton High was .98 miles from my house on
Liberty Street but it did not seem that far.
My Paper Route#2 ended at South Olden and Redfern about
.92 miles from my house and that also did not seem that
far.
Independence Mall was about 1.7 miles from my house and
that did seem a mini-hike.
I am pondering this because Tom Glover in a post today
mentioned that he would walk to the Bijou or the RKO at times.
That is over 2 miles from where he lived on Hartley Avenue
in Hamilton.
From all these items I think we can create a theory that
a walk of less than a mile was not noteworthy or stressful
in kid distance but somewhere beyond that it became a
mini-hike:)
UPDATE:
Bob Reck points out he had no problem walking to Trenton
High from Virginia Avenue, about 1.7 miles away.
Perhaps a hike is just more than what you are used
to when walking.
6 years ago
8 comments:
I lived on Virginia Ave.and Liberty St. I'd walk every day to THS and back toting my tenor sax case, no problem. Now, getting down the grocery isle is a problem.
Wow Bob. I just looked at yahoo
maps and it makes a screwy route
but I adjusted it and guess that
was about 1.7 miles.
SoDak reader said:
Shades of an "in my day post"!
I walked home every day from Ewing High to Olden and Princeton neighborhood.
No big deal.
Courtesy busing?
Not back then.
How about walking to elementary school in AM, walking back home for lunch, walking back for PM session, and then walking once a week to religion school in burg, and then walk back home. All of this with cardboard in your PF Flyers! The only thing I did not mention was that it was uphill both ways...
Tom,
Know all about it. In fact, there was 3 ft. of snow fom Sept. to June.
No problem walking from Beatty & Home to THS; Gropps Lake; Rayco Auto; Up town; Sturgey; Woodlawn Pool; and if it was to see a girl...anywhere, anytime!!
Saxman,
Remember jumping off the bridge at Gropps Lake?
Oh, yea...actually the first time was with "help" from Teddy Wood!
I was friends with a girl who went to Hamilton and lived a few houses from the Gropp's building on the lake. All us guys would walk up there and slide down the hill onto the lake...in the Winter (hell of a walk in the snow)
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