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TRAVEL TRAILER

Wikipedia Definition 'A travel trailer or caravan is towed behind a road vehicle to provide a place to sleep which is more comfortable and protected than a tent (although there are fold-down trailer tents). It provides the means for people to have their own home on a journey or a vacation, without relying on a motel or hotel, and enables them to stay in places where none is available. However, in some countries campers are restricted to designated sites for which fees are payable.

Travel trailers and caravans vary from basic models which may be little more than a tent on wheels to those containing several rooms with all the furniture and furnishings and equipment of a home. They are used principally in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand and are rare elsewhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_trailer

http://gypsywaggons.co.uk/varhistory.htm

In Britain a traditional Gypsy home is thought to be a daily decorated wooden caravan pulled along by a plodding horse. But in reality caravans have only been used by Gypsies for 150 years. Before then, they walked on foot, used carts to convey their possessions, and slept in tents called 'benders' made out of hazel twigs covered with canvas. Lacking tents, they would sleep beneath the tilt (cover) of the cart.

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