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WHAT CARAVANNING IS 7cut down your necessities and simplify to thelast degree. But the special charm of a caravanis in complexity and completeness, the whole funof itis to bring with you a dwelling fitted out inevery detail, even to shoe-horns and paperknives.For this little home and all that itcontains isopen to competethat merely carry goods or passengers.with other vehiclesThink ofwhere she has been and where she still may go.I may perform the offices of my daily life in anyplace where wheels will carry me. I may drawup and make my tea and drink it in the heart ofPiccadillyor the Strand. In the thick of thedensest traffic or far on the lonely moor, into anycorner of these islands where there runs a reasonableroad I may take myself-contained community,my private habitation,and no matterwhere I may be I shall be able to lay my handupon the frying-pan, to take down the book whichI left overnight in the rack above my head, to gointo the bedroom and strop my razor or changemy shoes.I am often asked what I do when I am caravanning,if I fish or play golf or collect beetles, orwhat. But I have never looked upon a caravanas supplementing other pursuits. It is far toobig and beautiful a thing in itself to act as an