Why Do They Do It?

I just wanted to add something else on the nomads, which I didn't get a chance to say in class. In the modern day, it seems that there are two very different types of gypsies. The 'real' gypsies, who work in travelling circuses and all that entails and then the 'travellers', who live in buses, campers and lorryies. These people still withhold the main ideals of the nomads, in the sense that they value jobs in which money can be made quickly, they move with the seasons and they are, in some respect, in touch with nature. Below is a quote, which I thought captured the main thoughts and feelings of these people:

"It was the self containedness. It was all there on four wheels, and you took your whole home with you, where ever you went. The idea of being one hundred percent mobile and that you have to reduce everything you own to fit into you living space. It's just breathtaking and exciting"

Julia Angeli