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WHAT CARAVANNING IS 5ing in the afternoon. And I got what I wanted,for those were good days, rich in glowingmemories.But caravanning means something quite differentto me now. SIEGLINDA has not spent herdays in loitering and dawdling in pleasant places.Igo out now to make a journey. I must havean aim before me. I must feel all the way thatI am eating up the miles, sweeping across themap, drawing nearer to my goal. I am a closestudent of contour books, gradients and surfaces.Every night I mark down the course of the day'smarch upon the map and add the day's performanceto the tally of the miles. I do not meanto say that I travel rigidly according to a settledroute, refusing to turn aside. But I am rulednone the less by the main line of advance. I mustget forward with the campaign.Now that I come to sum itupI find that I havechanged my opinion on almost every point ofpractice. The caravan SIEGLINDA represents thenew order of things. She was built for ourwedding journey some years ago. We travelledabout two hundred miles through Galloway, in aceaseless downpour.It was then that my Partnerand I learned to handle our craft, to work intoeach other's hands and to fit ourselves for the long