As a matter of fact I did!

Walk to school each day. First the Centre School, only a few blocks, but, across "the Parkway"! You didn't graduate from each level then, you got promoted...or not! So after the Centre School I began the long daily trek to the Parlin Jr. High. Everett is only 2.5 miles long at it's most distant points, I was in between, as was the High School. Mileage involved? Probably two miles daily. We were young and much thinner as well as much more fit, so big deal. City didn't have buses. Many parents didn't have cars. It was either public bus or walk. School was never cancelled because it wasn't commuter friendly...parking lots not plowed. 

Looking at photos of former class mates shows that walking was good for us then and that many of us stopped way to soon. There were stops you could make along the way, mostly the way home. Swan's Drug Store in the square still had a perfectly good soda fountain and Parker Swan. Nickel cokes and ten cent cones, yep those are good memories. The library is still right there in the middle of the square, so I could stop and pick up something to read on the way home. It was also right where the snow was piled when it snowed. The square and surrounding area was plowed to the surface with the accumulated pile then being dumped into trucks and transported to the ocean for melt-down. Doubt that passes the current "green" standards.

So, yes Karen I did walk and trudge to school, over the hills, etc. And now you can read about it forever!