Yes sandoppe but after talking to my Greatgrandmother we found out the they lived in the middle of town and all he really had to do was walk to the end of the drive way and the bus took him the rest of the way and while was are on the subject of debunking grandpa stories he also use to tell us about all the wood he had to chop for heat in the winter, well as it turns out they burned coal and all he had to do was chop some kindeling :)