Well, figure it like this. The song "White Christmas" was written to romanticize the times long before there were airports, air travel, cars, etc. Travel in winter involved hitching the horses to the sleigh and then traveling down the road to the neighboring farm where you go together with a few locals to celebrate the holiday. (or for non-Cheechakos maybe hitching the dog team to the sled or putting on the snow shoes and walking). Of course those folks who lived then probably considered it a PITA to travel through snow as well. But it's human nature to romanticize things when we look into that mirror to the past.