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CARAVAN DAYSCHAPTER IWHAT CARAVANNING ISIT is sixteen years since myfirst caravan TRIUMVIRwas built and made her first journey in the countyof Cheshire. But although those April days inDelamere Forest made it clear to me that ina caravan I had found the very instrument andprovision that I needed, the tour was no verysudden departure for myself or the members ofmy crew. For I had made many journeys beforethat, that were free of railways, luggage andhotels.I had travelled often across country witha knapsack, though that was a most imperfectequipment which failed to deal with lodging forthe night. And the same is true of sportivego-as-you-please tours in which one had to makeone's way from point to point by every means ofprogression that occurred. But other expedi-