“I think you do actually… but you may not feel comfortable providing it.” We are stopped in front of the clinic and Mark is staring into me with even more intensity than I have ever seen from him. Are his eyes glistening? “And what are these resources I have?”
VEHICLES Caravans have been viable communities for millennia, although it may not be until the Romani vardo that the caravan started to feel like moving houses or even moving suburbs. I wanted some of the same features of those caravans in terms of mobility, but also needed to move a lot of particular resources that the Romani would not recognize. This took a notable collection of very modern and mostly common vehicles. First we needed a modern version of a horse. Freightliners are a brand of heavy-duty trucks with horsepower reaching the high hundreds. Torque is well over a thousand poundfeet. So these are very big horses. I tried out several different brands, but was most comfortable with the layout of Cascadias (a semi-tractor) and simply went with that comfort. Ideally any of the vehicles we accumulated would be easily swapped with either the same brand or some different brand. So the most important aspect was committing to the tractor-trailer vehicle structure combined with forty-foot containers on chasses. These cargo transportation components are incredibly flexible and incredibly powerful. Box trucks are more agile than eighteen-wheel tractor-trailers, so we acquired a dozen of them for more flexibility in route, destination, parking, and cargo organization. These box trucks are meant to augment the Cascadias: transport less, but more control where to - 73 -
