Yesterday I went on a rant! And I'm not sure anyone understood my frustrations or what I was talking about. There is only a handful of people that are aware of my situation and I will tell it again and explain my frustrations.
Almost 7 months ago now I lost everything I had in a fire. I was living the van life and very much loving it. When we started out day out 7 months ago we never thought it would go so horribly wrong. We had just left the gym after a workout and a shower when we headed to joann's fabrics. Stopped in the turn lane waiting on a green light I smelled something then felt a blast of heat. I turned to see the source of the smell and heat only to see the flames coming up in the back driver side corner.
Now this is what it looked like after the fire department put out the flames. Yes I was in the van with my two dogs and my significant other was the driver. And yes we were in the road with traffic passing us as the van burned. And yes a few people stopped to help even trying to coral my two girls.
Now mind you I had a third dog a month or two earlier that was killed by a careless driver in north Florida when we started our second attempt at getting out of Florida. But I digress my whole purpose is to get another vehicle we have manage to save up $600, but it's still not enough to get a vehicle. I have set up a GoFundMe page I even have PayPal and someone even helped me set up a zelle so I can get the money deposited straight into my bank account. You see I am not working at the moment cause I have no where to keep my dogs so I take care of them during the day while my other half works. This is how we have the money we have this includes any money that has already been donated through GoFundMe, PayPal, and zelle.
I have the license, but no job and he has the job, but no license so car lots won't help so I'm reduced to looking at craigslist and FB MARKET PLACE to find something and it's not going very well cause people want more then we have and I have to deal with getting yelled at because he is frustrated and that gets me frustrated.
I just need to get another vehicle so we can get out of this tiny spot before we get caught here. As the law is not nice to the homeless population and I want to get back to what I do and that is crafting things to sell. I just don't want to accumulate alot of stuff before I have a place to work and living in the area I'm in the trees don't have a plug in.
I need help as I can no longer deal with sleeping on the hard ground and want to get into another vehicle as soon as I can.
I'm also re-evaluating my life and what I want to do and I know I don't want to be in this situation, but with what has happened somethings are out of my control. If there is anyone that can help either by cash donations or just donating a vehicle to help me I would forever be grateful. I'd really like another van, but at this point any running/drivable vehicle will be awesome.
No I'm not asking for hand outs I'm just asking for a little help to get back on my feet.