Research published this week by the Tampa Bay Times reveals stunning statistics from 2014: 53 Wal-Mart stores in 3 Florida Counties (Hillsborough, Pasco, and Hernando) generated a paddy wagon caravan of 16,800 police reports in one year alone.
Wagon train, caravan of wagons organized by settlers in the United States for emigration to the West during the late 18th and most of the 19th centuries.
I grew up in a Gypsy family, travelling the roads of Ireland and England with horses and wagons, caravans and carts.
When I was a little girl I dreamed of living in a terraced house on a cobbled street, because in wagons and caravans you never get any peace.
John O'Donagh is a 35-year-old traveller and hare courser from Kent "For travellers, coursing is a tradition that goes back hundreds of years, since the days we lived in tents, before wagons and caravans.
After driving to a remote village on the western edge of the Sahara, I hitched my wagon to a camel caravan and set off into the world's largest desert.
The closest pair had a JCN distance of 0.54 ("van" and "wagon") and the furthest pair had a distance of approximately 6.61 ("truck" and "caravan"); these distances are both considered close.
Other widespread types are decorated vehicles such as the caravans of Roma (Gypsies), circus wagons, boats bearing symbolic motifs, and toys and miniatures in countless media.
Until recently, the Airstream has led a quiet life, loved by the cult of its owners who gather by the thousands to park in radiating "wagon wheels" at annual rallies or who caravan in comfort to hardscrabble destinations.
We had beaten each other up, stolen each other's toys, fallen asleep in the back seats of station wagons together as we caravanned back from double features at the Bridgehampton Drive-In, the stars scrolling beyond the back window.
