Originally Posted by
freya 
Actually, when the BB was written (late 1930's) "trudge" meant "to walk with a sense of adventure or purpose"; it did not mean miserable, exhausting plodding along.
freya
I went to Clearwater beach, Florida in 1939. The only thing there was sand, water, bugs and nothing else. I trudged through the sand.
My Aunt's house in Tampa sat in the middle of nothing but sand, sand spurs, and rattlesnakes. When I came back in 1973, that house was one block from Busch Gardens.
I have trudged on the trails in the mountains with the explorer scouts and in the swamps while in the U. S. Marine Corps.
I learned to read in the 30s so trudging is a known activity.
Thanks Freya for taking me back to the way it was when the Big Book was written and I did a lot of walking back then.
