Goossens

Now that it’s completely built, however, Goossens says it should take only about two weeks to take down and about three to put back up using a crew of 12 from both Belgium and America.

The tent that Scheel and Davis decided to commission after their trip took two years to build, Goossens says.

An ornate Belgian spiegeltent might not seem to fit the bill at first blush, but these lavish tents are indeed built for the road, says Peter Goossens, president of West Coast Spiegeltents, whose company built the tent, known as the Queen of Flanders.

Scheel and Davis flew to Belgium with Goossens to meet with the Klessens family.

There they were over-served a potent monk-brewed beer, Goossens jokes, and introduced to a world of possibilities for their vision of a traveling show.