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a house that commits to nothing but the open road and a slow merge
means A caravan is a group of travelers, animals, or vehicles journeying together for safety, or a wheeled home towed behind a car for holidays and dwelling.
from From French 'caravane', borrowed in turn from Persian 'kārwān' — a company of desert travelers moving as one across long, dangerous routes. The word rode the Silk Road into Europe with the trade it described. Only much later, in English, did it shift from a band of camels and merchants to the towable holiday home, the open road replacing the open desert.
- word origin
- From Persian karwan, a desert convoy of camels
- speed myth
- Towing one legally caps you well below the limit
- silk road
- Caravans moved goods across continents for millennia
- jam culture
- British holiday traffic is named the caravan crawl
- tiny kingdom
- Folds out into beds, kitchen, and existential regret
us route 66 caravan — john steinbeck's 1962 cross-country journey documenting american life in a truck and camper
silk road caravans — trade routes connecting china to mediterranean from 2nd century bce through 15th century ce
hajj caravan — annual pilgrimage caravans to mecca, historically documented since 7th century with tens of thousands of participants