And likely uphill both ways!
Yea, my parents were really mean.
I walked to school or rode a bike or rode the bus in high school. Even in the first grade I walked to school. My brother was in 3rd grade and we walked what I remembered as a mile or so. I used Google Earth and looked up our old house in Pearl City, HI and the grade school. It is about 3 blocks.
I do remember a huge honeysuckle bush that we stopped and grazed at all the time.
I walked to grade school in shorts. No shirt, no shoes. One Easter we got dressed up to go to church. I did not have a single pair of shoes that would fit. I had to wear flip flops to church. Of course my mom could buy all the shoes in the store and I would not have worn them on a day to day basis. My feet were like elephant hide.