several miles away You don't need a car to travel several miles, not even in America My office is "several miles" from home, and I bike to work. And while I

several miles away You don't need a car to travel several miles, not even in America My office is "several miles" from home, and I bike to work. And while I live in a mild climate now so weather is on my side (winter temps rarely go below 50), decades ago when I was in college, I biked to campus even in the winter (which included ice, snow and below freezing temps)