Back in the day, we didn’t take buses or drive in a car.
We walked.
Back in the day didn’t matter if our school was a distance far
We walked
Back in the day whether rain or shine, snow or sleet
We walked
Back in the day we depended on one thing only, our feet
We walked.
I tell my tales from eons ago when what did we do?
We walked
As the school years went by and my legs grew
We walked
Before the time of backpacks and SUVs
We walked.
Even when we were chased by a hive of bees
We walked.
Grandkids stare unbelieving when I claim that always
We walked
With headaches and stomachaches still we obeyed
We walked
How ‘bout if school was a mile away? They ask
We walked
How ‘bout if the road was hilly and long? they gasp.
We walked.
But how did you have fun back in your day?
We walked
How’d everyone know if you were okay?
We talked.
Did you hitchhike or whine for a ride?
We walked
Why do you say that with such pride?
Because we walked.
We walked to get there. We walked to get away.
We walked for our sanity, we walked ‘cause that was the way.
We walked in the fresh air and heard the birds play.
We walked and stayed slender; our moods always okay.
Nowadays we’re told walking is good for you, heaven’s above.
Back in my day walking was like a hand in a glove.
Love this, Pam! After having 2 back surgeries in my early 30’s, I’m thankful I can get out of bed each morning and walk across the room. xo
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Been there too, Jill – I had back surgery when I was 28.
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Wow – and you two are so fit and lovely – you came through that medical crisis it seems in good ways. Perhaps there are a few blog posts on this subject in the near future??
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Thanks for another perspective, Jill. Walking across the room counts. Three cheers to you! ❤
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Pam, how true! When did ‘walking’ become a ‘thing’, instead of just being an integral part of day! This resonates so much with me; I’m fondly remembering the long walks up and down the hill each day to school, my explorations of the moors … not realising that ‘We walked for our sanity’! Here’s to walking … hugs xx
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I remember when I visited England the first time, about 35 years ago ;-0 , and outside of London I noticed how everyone in the villages and towns and farms WALKED. And those wonderful trails through sheep and cow farms for miles and miles, until a pub is spotted for a cup of tea and some shepherd’s pie. From that experience, I’ve always thought that the English are big walkers. I hope that’s still true. But as you say, now walking is a ‘thing’ and people actually pay for “walking tours”!!!
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Pam, it sounds like you had an idyllic time here in England! Yes, it is still a land of walkers and pub lunches at the weekend for a break are most welcome! 😀
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Hah! I remember those days. Up hill and down dale. I walked to the train station – over a kilometre? – when I was seven months pregnant. Saved so much money on the gym. 😀
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Remember when walking was deemed good for pregnant women? I certainly walked for miles as I reached 9 months, praying for the movement to bring on the baby. 🙂
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Yes! I was probably as fit as I’d ever been, despite the mountain out in front. 😀 Got my figure back fast too.
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Another plus of walking when pregnant. Or after a big meal. Or when stressed, or, etc. etc. 🙂
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Yes. I actually love walking but there are few footpaths where we are now so I just walk around my garden. It’s 1.6 acres on a steep slope so gives me a decent workout. I do miss walking the dog and looking at people’s gardens. Was always a great way to discover new ideas.
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ah, I remember those days so well, love this post )
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Thanks, Beth. Hope you are having a good walking day today! 🙂
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I suppose walking is a natural part of people’s lives depending on where they live. When I was a child in Dallas, my mom or someone else drove us to school and picked us up–so, I don’t think the “back in the day” necessarily applies. Then when we moved back to PA, I walked to school. My daughter who has lived in Boston for many years walked to work, but now that they’ve moved out to western Mass, they’ve bought a car. But yes I think walking has become “a thing” because it has to be when many people live otherwise sedentary lives. It’s part of our world now–like me driving to the gym. 😉 But I do try to get lots of walking in, too.
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Great thoughts and comment here, Merril. I grew up in a small town, so yes, we walked everywhere. Over two miles to school, 1 1/2 miles to downtown to buy a small treat at “Woolworths,” a different directional 2 miles to the summer pool. I didn’t complain or think about it, because it’s just the way it was. Living in a city is similar if it’s a walkable city like San Francisco and Boston- I’ve trekked miles there (and my calf muscles got amazing with the SF hills). Dallas would be a different experience – the city is so spread out. Western Mass is so gorgeous I imagine your daughter gets lots of walking in there, if not to work. Laughed about driving to the gym – I’m guilty of that also.
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Yes. Back in the day, walking was part of the lifestyle. Now opportunities for walking have to be created. And I can’t talk.
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I have days when I tell my guy “I’m going to MAKE myself go for a walk now.” And I do, even though I’m tired and want to sit in the chair and read. I always come back feeling magically better. So as you say, walking is not as much of a lifestyle now, but a life choice. ;-0 xo
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I’m pleased you are making the choice, Pam. You’ll be better for it. 🙂
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Up hill both ways . . .
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Amazing – me too! How do hills do that? 🙂 But walking up hill certainly helps shape the legs. ❤
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Haha…I certainly walked! Sadly, MS has meant I can’t walk far at all now,, but I try not to be totally sedentary. Also, I talk. A lot!!
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Ah, thanks for your comment, Sue. One of my neighbors who has Parkinson’s misses walking so much but has limited ability now, and I know how much he misses it. HIs talk has increased also, and that’s understandable! ❤
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We walked a lot on the farm, of course. We also rode our bikes. Another form of good exercise. Now I have dog so I walk a lot. A good reason to get up and away from the computer!
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I walked so much more as an adult when our dog(s) were still with us. I grumbled when it was rainy or snowy or super cold, but by gosh, it was good for the soul to get out there and walk. Yay for Dot. She’s a treasure in so many ways.
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Love this Pam. It was true for so many of us.
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In hindsight, it was a great way to grow up as a child – walking so many different places with friends and even by myself, exploring the world. I hope/wonder if the pendulum will swing, and walking will become de rigueur again.
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Great post, Pam. Yes, we walked too. Never even thought about it either. Just did it. Yesterday when hubby and I were going out shopping, I remarked on the scores of cars all lined up down the road and around the corner from the school. How times have changed and not for the better.
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Don’t get me started on the line of cars spread for quarter of a mile to pick up kids from school. Yikes. And how about the people who drive their cars AS CLOSE TO a store’s front door as they can get? I (and many of my friends) do the opposite – we park as far away from a grocery store/department store so we “walk the distance.”
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Two miles to work every day…and two miles back after being on my feet all day, to start the housework and ‘mum-stuff’…which often included a walk with the boys…
I rather miss those days.
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At the time it was kind of a chore, all that walking, and yet look how we reflect back on that time in fondness, Sue. When my kids were little I’d take them everyday to streets near us that had little traffic. We’d perform an “Olympic contest” where we walked forwards, and backwards, and hopped on one foot, and jumped, and raced. One of the best memories of their childhood for them…and for me. Walking can be quite entertaining. 🙂
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We sang and recited poetry as we walked…as my mother had done with me. Silly stuff, but fun. 🙂
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Silly stuff is the BEST. ❤ I do this now with my grandkids, as I did with my kids, and they giggle and think I'm funny. (I AM). 🙂
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Yes, I love being a grandma 🙂
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Hooray, someone with sense. Yes, we walked. In fact, I walked 5 miles the day my youngest was born. My kids walked too. What to do on a balmy Sunday afternoon. Walk. Neighbourhood kids used to ask to come with us. And still I walk, though the longer distance, say 5 miles plus, are treated as more of a treat.
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Five miles the day your youngest was born? IMPRESSIVE (see acflory above, who walked far during her pregnancy also). I love the idea of the neighborhood kids asking to come along with you and your kids. You were like the Pied Piper of Walks. Walking five miles IS a treat these days – who has the time? My guy and I took our granddaughter early this morning into Boston for a 4.5 mile walk around the city. She LOVED it.
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Ah, now city walking is a different matter. Traffic. People. Fumes and smells. I don’t enjoy that so much.
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I grew up in a smallish town, so I walked to school – there were no buses – and to friends’ houses, downtown, to the library or the YMCA. I miss that here because we have no downtown. But there are plenty of walkers on trails!
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I grew up in a small town with no buses also, Barbara. Walking was THE way to get anywhere. With more congested towns/cities/streets these days, a huge positive thing is the walking/biking trails/paths that are being created for everyone. Those trails are happily used in our New England area here, as well as in the SF Bay area where our son/friends live.
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Nice piece
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Thanks for coming along with me during my “Walks.” 🙂
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Right on! Great post!
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Write On, Right on, and WALK ON! 🙂
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I remember when walking was a normal part of the day rather than an exercise program!
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Can you imagine how we’d react 25 years ago if someone said they needed to walk to get their “steps” in? We used to walk to ….. get somewhere! 🙂
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That and bought water would make my mother hysterical if she was around today.
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Back in the day, I walked everywhere when I was a kid and accepted it because that’s just the way it was. I remember trudging to school long distances in frigid conditions when I lived in the Midwest. It took a major snowstorm to get school cancelled.
I’m not one of those people who is anti-technology, but back in the day people used to communicate face-to-face instead of staring at their phones.
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You make another good point, Pete. When we walked “back in the day” we watched where we were going (for miles, and toward school/stores/friends’ homes) and paid attention to the cars/sky/clouds/birds/nature. These days, I cannot tell you how many times people have WALKED INTO me as they look down at their phone and move their feet. Laughable but also sad.
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I remember walking everywhere, Pam. My brothers and I walked a 3-mile round trip for a pack of gum every Saturday during the summer. 🙂 If only I could walk and write at the same time – I’d be so fit!
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That must have been some pack of gum, Diana! But my mom didn’t believe in candy bars (being the non-sweet lover that she was) so I’d walk 2 miles one way to Woolworths (remember them?) for a candy bar, and eat it on the 2-mile walk back home, wiping the chocolate off my face. 🙂
Yes, writing and walking simultaneously would be a feat of inspiration and exercise, but I’m sure you agree with me that walking can help us as we create stories in our head. Have you ever read Brenda Ueland on writing? She was a forerunner about creative writing in the ’50s and ’60s and claimed going for a walk before writing was the BEST thing a writer could do.
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I need to walk more, Pam, for a whole lot of reasons. And I can relate to using the time to clear the head and let the next step in a story congeal. I haven’t gotten back into book-writing yet after my absence, but soon. 🙂 I’m going to finish my darn first draft by the end of the year!
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Yes you will! I have no doubt.
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Yes! Reminds me of when my father told me he walked two miles everyday( uphill each way) to school !!
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Haha. We didn’t believe our parents about their “walking to school in two-feet of snow” stories, and my grandkids don’t believe me now when I tell them how far I walked to school But we did, we did!
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I don’t walk enough anymore. I like this reminder of how it used to be and while I’m generally not one for nostalgia, on this particular point, I might be. Now, all I have to do is make it so!
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I think this reminder of how much we walked and “got out in nature” is good for our psyche, and a reminder to “make ourselves” get out there now, Ally. Hope it works for you. It’s actually spurred me on to do better.
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I remember walking back then too..we dont have easy access to transportation then…
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Think how much more pleasant it is to walk than to take a crowded bus or subway. ;-0 I’m so glad I’m old enough to have had walking as my status quo when I was a kid.
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I love how you wrote this. Things have certainly changed. Not necessarily for the better. I think the rain has let up a bit and maybe I can get another walk in today. I do it to keep breathing. Thanks for the reminder. My kids walked too. Not anymore though. ;(
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Walking IS good for the lungs and the muscles as well as the spirit and the attitude. Good for you, getting out there for walks so often. I walk in light rain and fog, but I’m still a wimp when it gets cold or icy. ;-0
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Cold is ok buy I dress for it. Ice, I don’t go out in. I’m way too wobbly. 😉 Not safe for anyone.
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I remember fondly the days of living in Manhattan when my eldest child was a baby. We used to go on walks that went for miles–it was nice having sidewalks everywhere, and we tried never to take the same route twice. Now I live where there are no sidewalks, so it’s not as safe to walk (especially with a bar 1/4 mile down the road), but I do get a walk in every day. There were so many other things that we used to do that we never thought about–going for a bike ride was one of them. And staying outside until the street lights came on, and drinking water from the garden hose…
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What a great memory of walking your baby all around NYC. Such a walkable city (as is Boston, and Philly, and San Francisco, and many others). Sidewalks are helpful and in some towns non-existent; thank goodness communities are beginning to put in more walking/biking paths. They encourage us all to WALK and enjoy the outdoors. (Ahh, you brought back my memories of catching lightning bugs and long bike rides and – I had forgotten about that tangy taste of drinking water from a garden hose….)
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This was great Pam! Yes, walking everywhere was so normal and it gave me time to think and wonder. I still love walking and find it a good way to come back to reality after writing.
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So right – walking centers us before and after writing. Before, it can spur on ideas. After, it can clear our head to leave the world we created and rejoin reality. 🙂
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Walking’s fun! The best way to explore the world is on foot. See ya.
Neil Scheinin
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Agreed! When walking, we not only SEE things better, we smell and hear them better too.
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I still walk but that is for my knees
I walk even when we’re playing – ‘catch’
‘Grandma, run fast,’ I smile at the pleas.
We walk to the little park, holding hands
The warmth permeates through hearts
Binding us to each other.
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A poetic walker you are, Balroop (and a fun Grandma). And I bet when you walk, you get inspired for more of your lovely poems.
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We always walked or rode a bike.
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YES! I remember times when I took off on my bike and got lost for hours. When I finally made it home, no one was worried nor (I’m afraid) even missed me. ;-0
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So true. I might add, when it was a little too far, we rode our bikes…at least as kids. My parents, who were raised in the city, didn’t even have cars. They either walked or took city transit. But now we’re talking a really long time ago. 😉
Have a nice weekend.
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A long long time ago in a distant land (in my case, New Jersey), the sound of sneakers or bike wheels or roller skate wheels on road and pavement gave a lift to my heart. 🙂
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I grew up on a farm so there was definitely a lot of walking and I cycled to town which was 2 1/2 miles away. however come the frigid Canadian winter there was not as much walking to be honest. One of those survival things. 🙂
I really enjoyed this Pam. I could feel the rhythm of walking as I read.
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I did try to get the rhythmical walking feel in here, Sue – thanks for “hearing” it! In New Jersey, where I grew up, we walked in every season. We kids would celebrate if we finally got 2 inches of snow. In your neighborhood, walking would be less accessible in winter, for sure. 🙂
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Walk we did! And just think how happy and healthy we were.. Those were the day! 🙂 Walking is still one of the best ways to stay fit–physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually–at least for me. 🙂
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For me also, Bette. When I walk, a bad day turns better, and a good day becomes spectacular. ❤
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So true! I grew up on a hillside in Johannesburg, South Africa and walked with my siblings, down the hill, for 25 minutes every single day to get to school AND back! Sometimes after staying after school for extra curricular activities… To get to my best friend’s house, I walked. There and back.
We also used public buses when necessary or had “car pools”… it was a rarity to see a parent and one child in a car to go ANYWHERE. If we did use the car, it was packed with four kids, always.
Ah yes, the good ole days!
You do such a good job of taking a simple subject and presenting it in an always interesting to read type of way. Well done.
Peta
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I enjoyed visualizing you as a child in South Africa, walking for miles toward education and entertainment. And you’re right, car pools were the only way to go if we had to drive in a car. Gosh darn, why’d that change? Here’s to walking (and watching out for fresh concrete while doing so…) 🙂 🙂
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Isn’t this the truth! I walked everywhere well into my adulthood. I still walk more than most of my younger family members. I think now it’s because I have the time. Interesting post! I hadn’t thought about the “younger me” walking patterns for quite some time! 🙂
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Good point about having more time than others for walking. Most people are so “busy” now that they don’t have time to walk – so much faster to get “there” in a car. World – SLOW DOWN!
But a huge benefit of either working for ourselves or retiring is that we can go back to our ‘younger selves’ and return to the joy of walking.
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I walked to school (though it wasn’t far) and we didn’t stay home when it snowed. We walked through it…
My kids walked to school as well.
Until high school. Then we had to take the bus because it was too far 😉
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I’ll have to tell ya, walking through snow (as a kid) was just a lot of FUN, not a chore. Now (hurrumph) we might be a bit more wimpy about snow walking. 🙂
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I still.enjoy it with my dog… And no rush. And dressed up like an Eskimo (are we allowed to say that?) Inuit…
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You’re a sweetie. PC is good to be. Happy walking with your special companion. ❤
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Oh my goodness, yes!! I walked too! Everywhere. And I was a slim pole bean. Two miles one way to school. There were times I had to get through snow drifts thigh high in order to get home, blinded by the raging blizzard. Frozen, miserable, and scared, I walked. And anywhere I wanted to go, I walked. Then as I got older, I biked. These kids today don’t get it. They are bused right to their driveway. Really? Loved this post, Pam!! Totally related!
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Great reporting on “how it used to be” with your walks, AmyRose. If we tell these stories to our younger family members, they think we’re exaggerating. We’re NOT! ;-0
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We know this …. sadly they do not.
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So true Pam. School for us was about 1.5 miles – we walked there in the morning, back home for lunch, back to school again and back home at night, so we easily walked 6 miles a day then. My parents didn’t drive so we never had a car – I walked and cycled and caught buses. I don’t do as much walking now as I used to just to get to places and back, but I still enjoy walking.
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I always imagine you walking, Andrea, because of your gorgeous descriptive settings of nature in your posts. I think it’s from our earlier walking days as children that we learned early on an appreciation of all that’s out there – seen in our walks.
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HI, Pam – I absolutely love this. I still try to walk everywhere that I can. It always cracks me up when friends comment “you walked all the way to there?” (which really wasn’t that far)!
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I get that too: “You WALKED there?” Or worse, “WHY did you walk – you coulda taken the car!” Urgh. May we walkers through our actions get some walking converts. 🙂
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We actually feel bad to see someone walking to a store, or home with packages, as though they can’t afford a car. Times change…
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Excellent point, Jacqui. I’ve had times when I slow down in my car to offer a ride to a neighbor when I see her/him walking home with groceries, and then I realize they are doing so by choice.
A good choice, by the way.
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Indeed, we did walk. There were no helicopter parents because they were yelling at us to get out of the house. 🙂
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OH my gosh, so true, Marty. My parents never let me in the house during a nice day. One time I got stung by a bee while playing outside and yelled to come inside. My mom yelled back through the kitchen door, “It’s too early!” until she saw my arm swelling up from the sting. Haha. We raced, not walked, to the ER that day. 🙂
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I walked to the bus stop, but took a school bus to school. Only kids who lived in close proximity to the school walked. I did ride my bike to school some times. Loved doing that!
If we wanted something from the General Store after school, we walked or biked there. It was about a mile. And I often walked to the Bookmobile. The nearest library was 10 miles away but the Bookmobile came twice a month.
We walked to friend’s houses. But we got rides to the movies because the nearest one was, you guessed it, 10 miles away. Same for the bowling alley. Both were rare treats.
Our town had a General Store, a Gas Station, and a Post Office. Everything else was 5+ miles away. So we learned to amuse ourselves ~ Frisbee, Catch, Hop Scotch, Jump Rope, Jacks, Hoops, Pogo Sticks, Art, Reading, Singing, etc.
Now I ride my bike in the hood and walk on the beach. Bliss!
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Your neighborhood was much like mine, Nancy, except we didn’t have buses. But we played the same games, many times out in the street. If a car came, the kids yelled: “R C A!!” (As a kid, took me a while to figure they were spelling CAR backwards, and that many parents worked at the close by RCA plant). ;-0
I’m jealous of your blissful beach walks now, that’s for sure. ❤
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The weather now is perfect in the mornings for long walks without heat fatigue. 😀
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Pam,
Walking…ah, I remember those days! I remember being in first grade and walking to and from school which was roughly two blocks away…gasp…BY MYSELF! No telephoning to alert Mom that I made it to school safely. But then again, I was a latchkey key; and as such, when Mom got home from work, I’d better be home as well. Because you know what? If I wasn’t, I could expect…(for those of you faint of heart, you should stop reading now)…a spanking. With.a.belt. Got a few of those, but I lived to tell the tale. So there’s that!
I loved your walking poem, btw! It did take me back!
Kids just don’t know how good they have it, eh? I wonder what they’ll tell their progeny in the future about what their lives were like? LOL. Mona
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Wow. I enjoyed hearing about your childhood walks (and reasons to behave!!). I’m hoping there will be a turnaround soon. Younger people are getting anxious about Mother Earth, and one of the ways to stop climate change is to get out of the car and … W A L K!
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Nice!!! and so true!!
We walked to school. 5 miles – uphill both ways!!
I remember the time my brother killed him a grizzly bear….with his loose leaf notebook!!
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You are too funny. I was ready to believe that your brother killed a grizzly with his own bare (bear?) hands, but with a notebook? No student in his right mind would mess up his notebook!!! 🙂
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Ah, yes. You got me there.
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We sure did. My Jr. High school was about a mile and half away – we walked. Like the mailman- through sleet, snow, rain, wind and heat, we walked. ❤
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You’re telling it the WAY IT WAS, Debby. I know. Now the “mailperson” uses a truck and doesn’t get out, even in a small neighborhood!! (Don’t get me started…) 🙂
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Yep, same thing here! 🙂
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Oh boy just read this aloud to hubby Pam… We were only reminiscing the other day to our children that back in our day.. ‘We walked’ lol Hubby used to walk nearly five miles with his siblings from his small holding farm house to school when he was only Five years old.. In snow up to their thighs in winter… His Mother used to have to walk two miles from a bus stop with four bags of shopping she would tie together for easier carrying..
My junior school was a mile away and I walked..
We never had mobile phones.. So if your car broke down, you had to walk to the nearest phone box to call a garage or better still cars in those days you knew their inner working and could pop the hood and fathom what was wrong and mend it.. Unlike today’s electron cars that have keyless starting.
mechanisms.
We grew up, and both our parents didn’t own cars… Cars were for the rich!… lol… We would walk miles ..
Even in our early years of marriage we fell on harder times so it was either pay the mortgage pull in our belts etc.. So when we couldnt afford money to spend on our ‘Ford Anglia’ lol… ( we would always be tinkering with engines and swapping engines out of one rust bucket to another Lol ) We Walked.. I remember pushing the pram two miles to visit my Gran with our new baby.. 🙂
Brilliant reminders Pam…
Walking never did anyone any harm…. 🙂 and I love to walk… ❤
Enjoy your day ❤
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Thank you for reading my poem to your guy, Sue. What an enormous compliment. I laugh when I see the expressions of my young grandkids when I tell them we didn’t have CELL PHONES when we walked to school, or the store, or anywhere, and had to “punt” and figure out how to get out of an incident ourselves. Ah, to the ole days. 🙂
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Yes while we both use this new technology I wonder at where it will all take us and to what kind of future our grandchildren will have as we see further developments. They too may well look back and see today as the Good ole days 😉 ❤
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Yes, we sure did! I still remember my mother bundling us up for our half-mile walk to the bus stop for school. If the temperature was below zero we were carefully instructed to keep our scarves over our mouths so the bitterly cold air wouldn’t freeze our lungs! Give us a ride and wait for the bus in a warm and idling car? The thought never crossed her mind! 🙂
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Brrrr, you lived in a place much colder than mine in NJ. But we didn’t have buses or bus stops, so we wrapped those scarves around our face when the temps dipped to 30 and we walked the mile and a half to school (hey, to us that was COLD!). Now when I pass kids waiting in their parents’ cars until the bus comes – I just sigh and roll my eyes ;-0
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As always, Pam, you have expressed your thoughts with great aplomb. A most entertaining post.
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Thank you thank you for enjoying my walking poem. And I must say, I rarely see APLOMB and love that word. I’m going to find a way to put it in my next story. 🙂 Hugs and hugs to you.
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Brought a smile to this 73-year old great-grandma’s face!
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A smile – that’s a great compliment. And what a young great-grandma you are! Happy Walking.
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I love your bright pop of beauty in the cover photo, Pam! A fun poem, yet filled with many truths. You remind me how our grandchildren (the “little” ones) actually like to hear our stories. I am not sure whether we get tuned out by the “older” ones. Your poem is also a good reminder on the ‘whys of walking.’ Thank you:)
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This time of year in New England the land (and homes) are decorated with pumpkins and mums. It’s rather fun.
My granddaughter took these photos of her friends walking (except the first one, which is my feet). She thinks my poem is funny. 🙂
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Great story !
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Thanks – so glad you enjoyed. Hope you’re out walking today.
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Walking is my favorite form of exercise and travel. I will always, always opt to visit a city/area that has lots of great walking opportunities (where I’m not forced to use buses or taxis to get from one place to the other). I wish I lived closer to the center of town, because I’d walk downtown every day. Currently I walk around the running trail that circumvents some soccer fields in town. It’s nice and quiet, no cars, no other people (when I go), and a great start to the day!
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That’s a great place to walk – the running trail around the soccer fields in town. I’ve done that at times also. A nearby town has a gorgeous running track in a park. However, I do tend to get dizzy, going around and around. 🙂 No matter, walking is “where it’s at.”
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