I love this house boat! Reminds me of the house boat I had, but the town of Old Orchard Beach woun’t let me keep. 
I got it after they burnt down my house. It was an old house boat from the 40′s that I was going to fix up and live in. That was asfter they made me tear down the yurt I started building. . No house. No yurt. No house boat. That’s when I built the “tent” instead (http://www.squidoo.com/onbeinghomeless2 )
I love this gypsy wagon! So, yurts are illegal in Old Orchard, as are house boats (in a fishing village . . . house boats are illegal????) You can have campground type houses, thus the tent itself (a tarp over a wood pile) was legal in Old Orchard, as are RVs, which I can’t afford as I can’t find one for $200 or less. I wonder if a gypsy wagon could be called an old fashioned RV? It wouldn’t be very hard for me to build one.
you know . . . it wouldn’t be too hard for me the close in the Goldeneagle and turn it into a gypsy wagon. oooh! thoughts are flying! I’ve always wanted to get the Goldeneagle on the road again, but was thinking in terms of it running – driving, but what if I could get it moving by horse power instead?
I need a horse
A house barge would be nice! I know Old Orchard wouldn’t allow one of these. Can’t live in a house boat here.
Thinking on all this house issue stuff, seeing how the snow is finally gone, which means it’s time for me to fix the tent up for it’s third year of use. (I’m only “not homeless” in the winter when I stay with relatives during the heavy snow season). Summer is upon us and I’m not really looking forward to yet another year of “the tent”.
A Hobbit House! When I first built the “tent” I was planning one of these. Didn’t get very far though, because I hit ledge only a few inches down after I started digging. I wonder though, What if I changed my approach and built the dirt up instead of digging down into the hill? That could work. I could build a sod house in only a couple of days too, plus unlike the “tent” I could live in it year round.
I did have a tippi up for a while and loved living in that, it had much more room than the “tent” does, but it wasn’t very good at keeping out the rain and snow, thus the move to build “the tent” instead.
I really like the idea of a gypsy wagon. It’s closed in better, and is up off the ground, which means it’ll be warmer too. Too bad my horse died. If I still had my horse I could take to the road with a gypsy wagon, and not have to stay in one place.
I wonder how hard it would be to take 14 cats and 40 roosters on the road in a gypsy wagon? I suppose it wouldn’t be any harder than trying to live in a tent with them which I’m already doing. I remember a guy who did that back in the 70′s. He had a team of donkeys pulling the wagon, and a herd of goats behind him, and chicken crates on the roof. I think he was Amish. Anyone remember him?
You know . . . maybe I’m really a gypsy and didn’t know it, cause I’m really liking the idea of a gypsy wagon lifestyle. And my cloths do already scream witch . . . at least, people on the street tell me I’m dressed like a witch.
Reminds me of Toad in Winds in the Willows when he bought a “canary wagon”. I haven’t read that book since I was about 8 or 9 yeas old. I really liked Wind in the Willows. I should read it again.
I just remembered . . . I still have the frame for Thunder’s old horse trailer! I can use that to build a gypsy wagon with . . . or I could, if not for some high priest who cut down one of my giant pine trees and the tree (about 200 feet tall) is now laying on top of it. I need a chain saw so I can cut up the tree and get to the horse trailer.
I don’t have a problem with actually building a house. The problem I’m having is that I have no money to buy materials so I have to build with what I have already. I’m not sure I could build a sod house seeing as our land has so much ledge, I’d have to have the dirt brought in from someplace else and I can’t afford that. .
It’s depressing not having a house to live in, and knowing how to build several different types, but having no way to get the materials to build a single one of them.
Of course, there’s no guarantee that once I finally do get another house back up, that they won’t just burn it down again. I need to move away from these people, but I don’t see why I should leave my home, when my family has been here for over 300 years and the people trying to make me leave moved here in the last 10 years!
A sod house would be pretty burn proof though and I could plant a garden on the roof too!
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