ES leaving on his first day of 2nd Grade in Ashburn(He wasn't in the mood to cooperate with a papa-razzi).
The topic of walking to school has come up in conversations in our house recently. My oldest son's walk to school is about a third of a mile.
It got me to thinking, and I said to myself,
"Self, how far did I used to walk to school?"
It sure seemed like a LOOOOOONG walk to me when I was in grade school. So I used the route feature on the Buckeye Outdoors website to measure it.
In Kindergarten through 2nd Grade, I would have guessed off the top of my head that it was at least a mile.
Um, yyyeah, not so much.
It was a whopping 0.35 miles. Man, it seemed a LOT longer than that as a 6 year old.
In 3rd and 4th Grade, I knew it was longer than my previous walk, and I would have guessed it at 2 miles. Nope. It was only 0.9 miles. I only got beat-up by a bully older-kid once while walking home from school though. That's not bad for a two year stint, is it?
In 5th and 6th Grade, it was only 0.4 miles to the bus stop where I caught the bus to school.
In 7th through 9th Grade, I walked 1.35 miles to the junior high school.
In 10th Grade, I walked 1.5 miles to the high school.
[Aside: After that... I got my driver's license. It's amazing how many people become your "friend" when you're in high school and you have a car and a driver's license.]
So how about you? How far did you walk to school when you were a kid?
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