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buy items, customers and followers also subscribed to his almost mystic creed, which commands them to lead caravans where the four winds blow or twinkling boulevards across trackless deserts to the traveled and untraveled corners of the earth. This year. Their quest for companionship and adventure has brought

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them to santa rosa. The inhabitants are for the most part elderly, well heeled, friendly and fiercely devoted to the idea of this sort of traveling. They were lightly veiled contempt for those trailers, which just remained stationary beside the road trailers and people they believe are made

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for traveling. What is it that attracts you about this Caravanning? Well, it's just a wonderful, wonderful way of life. We've traveled here this last year about 28,000 miles all through Canada. First part of the year we visited Florida from California. I live in southern California. Oh,

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it's many, many things is the life of the trailer and being out with a trailing meeting. All the different people checking the different rigs, radio. Oh, just so many things. It's hard to enumerate all of them. It's just getting around to see in the world. Well,

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basically getting together with a group. This is this is similar, I'd imagine to a an old fashioned three day picnic only. Instead of bringing the picnic baskets while we bring our homes along. Yeah, After four July, this mysterious migration will reverse itself and the more than

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2000 silver trailers will disappear to whoever they choose to pause the next time and then it's going to be difficult to believe that there was ever anything like the Byam caravan club town here in santa rosa. This is Jim Anderson reporting.