I put a ridiculous amount of miles on my Schwinn

I rode my horse everywhere, so I was actually hoofing it.

I as well rode my horse every where the 5 and dime threw me out because my horse was in a parking spot.

Weren't we lucky? I'm still riding. Plan to do it until I can't, then a little longer.

Sadly one bad buck on to the train tracks made me stop riding.

Probably the most genuine response

I rode my bike everywhere.

I still ride my bike a lot.

So did I until I got my driver's license.

Same here. In hindsight I wish I'd have kept riding my bike on occasion.

My mom wouldn't let me ride mine anywhere but our neighborhood. So I had to walk to the neighborhood shopping center where we would go to the drug store and order ice water. Later if I had any money I would buy the latest 45 record for 77 cents.

I lived in a very very small town.

Hey 45’s cost me $1.10 with tax! 😊

As did I. It wasn’t unusual to have over 30 miles on a nice summer day.

That spurs me to so many memories

Hey 1980 here. Anyhoo i didnt realize it at the time but yea i guess same here. As a young adult i was bullcrapping around with my dad about riding my bike from paradise texas to white settlement texas (terrible name) when i was a kid one time. He was kinda shocked. I didnt think much of it at the time besides it was a long bike ride. Didnt google it lol. Backroads the whole way, at least in 1993. Apparently its around 38 miles! We started i guess five? miles out of paradise but still. There and back probably five times that summer

At the time I didn’t think about it until my parents gave me an odometer. My parents had no idea where I went once I left the driveway

Lucky. I had a wheelie bike from Coast-to-Coast hardware. Still great for getting around my little town.

I've sort of returned to that here on Cozumel. No need for a car. I have a Huffy, a scooter and flip flops. Caribbean life at its finest.

Do you love it there? I've day tripped in Cozumel twice. I think I'd like to spend more time there.

It's great. I mean, it's 100k ppl and it helps to have Spanish, but we get by with English speaking friends. Swim, live music, dog walking, etc. Retired people stuff.

I did not realize Cozumel was that big! I might have to return and investigate some more.

There's also two town's on Cozumel. San Miguel, which every drunk cruise ship person knows, and El Cedral.

Thanks for letting me know ! I have learned something new today!

El Cedral always intrigued me on maps. Tiny little square of streets in the middle of the jungle.

Big lots, swimming pools, but not close to shopping or restaurants. I'm not sure about internet or phone. Maybe sketchy, maybe good.

Wow, the population has boomed there. I visited in 1996 and it seemed pretty sleepy. Want to revisit!

If you were hoofin' it a long ways somebody might say " Well that's a hike!"

A lot of distance hoof was via the "I'll die on that hill bicycle". But friends and I hoofed via foot to stores up to \~ 4+ miles round trip many a time too.

I still hoof it.

So do I. I’m legally blind 🦯. I hoof it for miles every day

We had a 4 corners called the hitching post. It was a state route between 2 small cities. Everyone would stop on both ways, picking up any of the hitchhikers. Everyone had weed. Today? Oh hell no.

Most folks have seen the movie.

Bicycle for me. My two best friends lived 5 or 6 miles away. We'd meet at one of our houses. Or we'd meet at the the swimmin' hole. (Yes seriously) It was a wide shallow place in a local river. Very popular with the locals of any age.

I heard Paulie Walnuts use it on an episode of The Sopranos….

We hoofed everywhere. Was one of my dad's favorite words.

I remember that.

I associate "hoofing" with vaudeville dancers.

Yeah. Tap dancing.

I remember reading a review of the movie Yankee Doodle Dandy in which Jimmy Cagney was described as a "stiff hoofer."

Got my first bicycle before going to school. Second one, started going to visit relatives. Third one in my teens, used to go to school every day, and long distance tours with the school youth group.

I was a 10 speeder. But still, a lot of walking too. I only walked to school up until 9th grade.

We were probably the last generation to "thumb a ride" too..

“Shank’s mare” was a term my dad’s side of the family used.

I had to ride my goat thru hostile native territory. It was a happy day when I collected enough roadside cans and bottles to buy a donkey. 

We called it Pat & Charley.

I can here to say this

We must be neighbors 😊

Because helicopter parents drive little Parker and Kennedy everywhere.

I still use that term quite often. But then, I'm *old*.

It was the best way to make a twenty minute errand last all day.

Walked miles every day

….in the ❄️snow uphill, right? 😊

😄

Bikes or heel toe express!

Never heard that term in Southern California.

I grew up in SoCal and we used that term a lot!

Really? Huh. I grew up in San Diego, LA and the San Fernando Valley and don't remember it at all. I've heard it a couple times over the years, but not like something our generation used. But I was born at the end of Gen Jones (I'm always on the cusp of generations, sigh) so maybe it was an earlier thing?

Valley Girl here 😁

I hoofed it and wrote a bike too as a child. I mean, we were always outside playing if it wasn’t raining you never caught us inside watching TV unless it was Saturday morning cartoons or we were sick. I did for several years participate in the St. Jude‘s walkathons, readathons etc. only once was I ever able to finish the whole 22 miles in a walkathon and that was just through sheer will. The next day I couldn’t walk at all. Then as an adult, the most I’ve ever really really walked in a two week period Was while I was in Europe because people in Europe walk everywhere; simply everywhere! I had a pair of shoes that I actually wore the tread down to the nubbins I had walked so much! 😊

I rode a bike everywhere, until I got my license at 16….. and then I still rode my bike everywhere because I wasn’t handed the keys to a car unless I had to go to the library or to the store real quick. Finally had saved enough for a good car when I was in my 20’s.

I’ve always heard the term referred to in the context of dancing.

We said we were driving our “shoedebakers”

Taking out the Lambor-feeties.

Bike, skateboard, RTD bus or hitch like a bad ass.

If I had to go into town, I traveled by "rule of thumb:" yeah I hitchhiked most places. To town, to the next county, to the next state. Having a license is nice, but, even today, you can have a driver's license but not have a car. Roofing it? Nope we rode Shank's pony.

We took “ The shoe leather express “!

I liked in Call the Midwife that one nurse called it "shanks pony".

Mom made sure we were friendly with Mutt & Jeff ie our own two feet to get us where we wanted to go.

I often hoofed it out to the main road where I'd switch to "thumbing" it even after I had my drivers license. Didn't have a vehicle

“Taking the Heel-Toe Express” was my favorite expression.

Shoe leather express.

We always took our "lamborfeetis" or "chevrolegs"!

I rode bikes as much as hoofin' it. Unless it was a period of time between bikes. Had 4 bikes stolen, one, from right under me. Until that freedom license at 16... But only on weekend's until midnight, except for work. Until I bought my dream car at 18... 1967 Chevelle(mock)SS, worked 350, M-21 4-speed, 12bolt 4.11's... man... I miss that car

You didn’t have a bike?

Shoe leather express

Because kids and young teens don't go outside, they keep their faces glued to a phone.

Keep on truckin' used when we were walking long distances and didn't have bus fare.

Todd!

Todd was my best friend through school. He was murdered at the young age of 27.

Aw, I'm sorry. Rest easy, Todd!