How This Blog Got Started

My name is Wendy C Allen, though I am more commonly known by my Native American name: EelKat.

I am the author of 30+ books, 200+ short stories, & 2,000+ articles, I am also an artist/painter/photographer, fashion designer, doll maker, psychic, card reader, hoodoo rootworker aka a witch doctor, feral cat rescuer, faerie channeler/contactee, 5 time NaNoWriMo winner, 2 time Script Frenzy winner, Script Frenzy ML for Southern Maine, CosPlayer, Steampunk life actor, huge fan of Liberace and Sesshomaru, Scottish Traveler and Princess of The Royal Highland Clan, Kickapoo Princess, vegetarian animal rights activist, and the original outspoken Proctor and Gamble Boycotter, of in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. I became homeless on May 9, 2006 after a flood.

After the flood, my goal was getting back in a house. Three years under a 8x6 tarp-leanto-tent made me realize - I REALLY don't want to go back to living in a house. I love being close to the land and you can't get any closer than sleeping on the ground under the stars for 3 years! LOL!

Than I got a Volvo and I've lived in that the last few years. From there, my goal was to get a 13 foot tear-drop travel trailer. (I was looking at TAB because it is lightweight enough to be towed by a Volvo). I spent a year looking at new and used ones and driving salesman crazy not buying anything, before I realized: this just isn't gonna work for me. I have 10 cats. At the time I started looking I also had a 16 year old dog - he recently died, but by the time I get my RV I'll have another one. I had to think about that.

So, while a travel trailer would be fine for just me, I suddenly realized it would not be okay for the animals - they needed a lot more living space - in fact, the cats were going to need their own room. So than I spent about 6 months studying floorplans, and I found out that there was one with a "walk-through" bath room. Meaning the RV/motorhome had 3 separate rooms: A dinning/kitchen/living room, a door to a bathroom, and from there another door to a bedroom. This is just what I had in mind. It allows the cats to have a room to themselves (with a door) this being necessary in order to have the door shut with the cats on the other side, when entering and exiting the RV: in other words - a safety precaution to prevent escaped/lost cats. Yet when I am in the RV, both doors would be open and the cats would have free run of the place.

I don't need the bed in the back room, so that's coming out - the overcab bed is fine for me. This means, I will be able to take me sewing/Etsy and art/Zazzle business on the road with me, by turning the back room into a workshop, in addition to it's being a place for cat-trees and cat-nip toys and cat beds.

And - the house I lost in the flood, was a tiny beach-front 1-bedroom summer cabin (though I lived there year round, with 7 people, 8 dogs, and 24 cats - my living space/spot on the floor was 9 feetx3feet - I had more room in the 8x6 tent) and the RV I'm looking at, at 31 feet long - actually has MORE living space than the cabin had, so we are actually moving into a much bigger house! And it can tow the Volvo.

My end conclusion (after 5 years of changing my mind) is that soon, me and the cats are buying and moving into a 31 foot motor-home - full time. I should have saved up enough money by the end of the year, to buy one next spring. And from there, I'll become a fulltime RVer as this will be our house 24/7 year round. And bonus: The world is our home - if I wake up one day and say "I want to see YellowStone" it's as simple as turning the key and off we go, house and all!

And that is how this blog got started.

Want to read more? You can find a more detailed story about these events HERE.