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88 CARAVAN DAYSthe stimulus of fresh discovery.I do not greatlycare to start the day with no unanswered questionsbefore me, and it is rather a tragic reflectionthat I have by now pretty well used up Scotland,regarded as caravanning material. Perhaps Iwould have been wiser to have husbanded andhoarded it more cannily. Yet there are compensationsin retracing one's steps. All anxietyand delay in the matter of camping are doneaway with and it is worth something to be ableto drive straight in and take the horses out at theend of a long day.I have now established analmost unbroken chain ofcamping-grounds fromMoffat to Inverness and made good friends atmost of them.IIn describing my journey to Johnhave dealt only with the campaigningo' Groat'sside ofcaravanning, and it now remains to put beforeyou what I have called the human and domesticsides in greater detail. I do not set out to giveyou a definite chronicle day by day of my otherScotch journeys, but rather to make use of themto throw light from as many different points aspossible upon the real nature of Caravan Daysto try to answer the question from which westarted of What CaravanningIs.But I should briefly indicate what these