Yes. Actually during Christmas break, me and my friends in Michigan drive A LOT!! For breakfast coffees, then casual hangouts at places like zoos/museums, then for lunch, then for coffee again, then for dinner, all of us in separate cars.

Of. course that's not everyday, but it's many days. When we're back home from college, it's nice to see the friends from back home, and often it will involve all of us driving separate cars. This is I believe archetypical of the Midwest.

Why don't you just walk around instead of all that driving?

I think it's quite hard to reach all the places you may want to go if you just walk if you're in a suburban midwestern town. Really wish we could come up with reasonable non-driving communities. More small towns and villages. My college was situated such that you could walk to classes, bookstores, coffee shops, and groceries comfortably. Wish there were setups like this outside of colleges.

Around Christmas in Michigan, the temperature hovers around 0C.

The person you're replying to is describing about 30 miles of travel, at a rough estimate.

So, there's your answer.

0C (32F) sounds high for anything but daytime high temperatures.

True when I was growing up, recently it's an over-under. Hard freeze isn't reliable until first week of January.

I meant walking to some nearby places instead of driving to far-away ones.