re: What are some things you miss doing from your childhood?

Riding bikes through neighborhoods and woods with no cell phones or plan or communication with anyone. Hard to imagine that kind of freedom now.

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once a 13 yr old friend of mine suggested swimming to pennsylvania from Edgewater Park NJ. a mile at least.
we had mile swim badges from 12 yrs old.
a bit more than halfway a ship came into view.
we were liable to be run down or sucked into the prop. we kicked! high gear to a bouy marking the penn side end of channel. clabered up and hung on the bouy as the iron ore went up river.
my parents never knew.