hey guys jenna here welcome to my channel where i take you on tours of unique and tiny homes i'm
really excited about today's tour because it's super fun not only does this woman live in the
tiniest wagon you've ever seen she also shares it with her adorable goat yeah you heard right i said
goat i'm sure you have a lot of questions about that just like i did but don't worry kate is going
to take us through her tiny wagon and explain how she shares the space with her furry friend
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hi i'm kate this is my goat little leaf and this is our wagon and full-time home
i got into this lifestyle because i had decided once my daughter went off to college
that i wanted to start knocking things off my bucket list which included hiking
the pacific crest trail the appalachian trail and the continental divide trail
so i got rid of my house and was planning on hiking the majority of each year and so
there was no sense in paying mortgage or rent i got through two of the trails and then coveted
hit so i started searching for something i could live in thematically oh bless you
i got really lucky when i jumped on craigslist and came across this wagon i fell in love with
it instantly it's price range was like 2 500 bucks it's only 800 pounds dry weight and
my toe capacity is 1500 pounds so it was like serendipitous and i also just saw the potential
and how cute it could be because of its uniqueness and shape universe just totally handed it to me
got really fortunate i kind of realized right away that there were a lot of things that we were going
to have to doctor in order to turn this into like a livable camper after a good full winter
of messing with this thing i finally got it to the point where i took it on its first excursion
when i started to fix things structurally it just added up fast probably about 6 500 total for where
i've got it right now to me that's not much 6 500 for two and a half years is a really good deal to
me and kind of a no-brainer so how i ended up with little leaf was kind of a crazy story when
the pandemic hit and i ended up with the wagon i needed a place to post while i worked on it
and the place actually was owned by a goat farmer one of his goats had just had a litter
so i went out to see them and meet them and there she was and she has this little white
patch on the side that looks like a leaf and that's kind of how i nicknamed her little leaf
two days after that before they were even a week old he came knocking on the door and
was like hey do you want to say goodbye this one's dying i think it's the one you nicknamed
she couldn't walk she was limp she had half her heart rate i couldn't handle that i was
like can i try to save her and he's like if you want to so i rushed her to an equine vet
they even told me less than 10 chance she'll make it and i argued with them
of course so what ended up happening in the end is they sent me home with a week's worth of
syringes filled with the different medications she would need i had to give her all kinds of stuff
but you know what she made it now they feature her on their website should we go get some raisins
welcome to the inside of my wagon we're pushing maybe around 45 square feet i'm really not sure
we've made a lot of changes to this recently and i'm really excited about it my reagan has
now got power i have solar panel it's a huge difference i've got a few different lighting
options in here if i'm just reading a book i'll grab this guy so i'm not using all my power
and then i have some battery-powered amethyst lights around there they're kind of like ambiance
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high quality content for you now let's get back to kate and little leaf's tour i had a really
bad roof leak so i've got a new roof now which is beautiful and it's still in the process needs to
be painted i used to have a big cabinet here that a bear ripped into and just shredded everything
so i got rid of that as you all know i'm used to living out of a backpack and i still have like my
good old trusty butane stove and stuff here just in case but i have an awesome new easy bake oven
it looks like an easy bake oven but it's really not but this thing it's got a coffee pot
it's got a grill on the top i've made everything from grilled cheese and paninis to my coffee in
the morning and toasting things that's a big upgrade and change for me a little life of
luxury here for me i actually have a kitchen which includes a fridge so to get to my fridge
this has been kind of a learning process but i'd rather have it and deal with this than not
so what i've done is i've got our main like blanket on this little thin other piece of foam
and what i just do is i fold that back and then i lift this up and i put this piece of material
here just to make it slide up and down easier and then i have kind of like a bread box area so i've
got all my english muffins and all that and then the fridge right here which is slid a little bit
and then i mean i even have ice cube tray in here which is really cool most of my food actually goes
on the shelving or down in here in the bread box in the fridge so i usually don't buy more than
i can fit in my fridge in my bread box and then like the coffee and spices and all that kind of
stuff and snack stuff tend to end up in these shelves here for water um if i'm out camping
in the back country with like taking this thing like super off-road i usually look for creeks and
rivers and just stick to my original old way of like filtering water a lot of times i keep these
two gallon water water bags and these things are like invincible and i have four of them total
i have all just the real basics in here because that's all i really need
underneath i usually have two totes but one busted so i need to go pick up another
i have summer clothes in one usually in winter clothes in the other and i just swap them during
the season so i really don't have to get into the bottom one my shoes go under here i don't
have a whole ton of shoes i have the basics and what's the most important including roller skates
and bunny slippers i have a little tiny garbage can and a dust pan in case i need
to clean up my huge front porch which is like a whole foot by four
and then this side is more of my entertainment and self-care and all of that stuff
we have one box here so this is my makeup and everything box it has her brush her bows in here
which i make her all her bows i get asked a lot she's a boy or a girl so little leafs bows are in
here my four pieces of makeup are in here we go to campgrounds mostly and it's kind of nice because
then i can replenish our water cook or wash all my cookware and everything and really like do a
deep clean and i am a virgo so i'm a little ocd when it comes to like cleanliness that's where
i usually showers campsites because i can take her in with me she usually showers every time i
shower because she sleeps with me i make sure she takes just as many baths i have a towel and i just
keep the one like i've learned less is more and i actually do just fine having one of everything
so for the bathroom i don't have one yet i use like you know when i stop to get gas or
campgrounds when i stay to go shower and do all that my plans are to figure out some kind
of small composting toilet or portable something that i could do because i usually can't promote
lee anyway that's why this thing's so off-road i'm not ashamed to go pop a squat in the woods
i'm that kind of girl the goat will pop a spot anywhere but she is potty trained so she knows
she's not allowed to go in here so she just paws at me with her hoof to like go to the door or to
go out when she needs to go i have an umbrella because she thinks she's gonna melt in the rain
i always get asked about sleeping with a goat in here it's just like sleeping with a dog really
she actually loves to snuggle she keeps me pretty toasty when we've had some cold nights they don't
stink like dogs which is fantastic dogs get that smell when they've been outside and come in so
we smell good it's weird but it's true it was a very split of the moment
decision to rescue her and i had i didn't know anything about goats so i had to buy that but
goats for dummies and now i'm a whisperer of goats i know all thing goat uh oh that was a good burp
she got me i made my eyes water
in the back here i finally created something to store my feathers in because they're
usually everywhere i am known for my addiction of picking up feathers
and collecting feathers so i stuff them in there now until i make something out of them so that's
constantly fluctuating and they're just feathers i find on hikes and so forth oh look another weird
a lot of the stuff in here too my followers and subscribers have gifted me for instance
subscriber gave me this medal cut out because there's a bird called the mountain lark that kind
of goes and we kept hearing that hiking through the sierras and we're all starving of course
and i said to my fellow hikers doesn't it sound like it's saying cheeseburger
and they were all so mad at me after that and everybody thought it was so funny
so a fan gave me this mountain mark cut out which just reminds me of more trail days
this is the back of my wagon which is obviously the entrance i've added these solar lights which
i don't usually travel with them on they'll literally glow all night long and make a
nice little ambiance out here and we sometimes sit and have our coffee and go drink want some
so what i loved about this wagon first of all the gentleman who who made it was a little
roma man he put this cute little scalloping on here and everything i added the wagon wheels
and the roping and i changed the color of it he had it like a green and brown
and it just needed to be a little more girly i kept some of the original because i wanted to be
true to him this is his original window and then all the little detailed painting i've added we
also reinforced the frame because this was built on a harbor freight trailer that was foldable and
i didn't want it to be able to fold anymore so we made a little more structurally sound this
compartment here i couldn't bring myself to get rid of it after the bear ripped through here this
used to be a food compartment where i kept all my dry storage for food but while in colorado a bear
busted in here and dug out everything and did all this beautiful damage here which i probably
will fix eventually i painted this map of the us on here to keep track of all the states that the
wagon and the goat have been so i think we're at 30 states now not 100 but um i could count them
to guesstimate my miles i've put on this wagon is really hard but i've gone through a lot of tires
but yeah i run this this baby all over the place back and forth there is no method to my madness
it's just madness madness and miles but anyway just kind of something fun because everybody
has those fancy stickers of all the states they've been to as like i'll just paint mine
and i know it's not very proportionate and i call myself an artist but this is turned into just an
outside cooking area so eventually i want to get like a little barbecue or something that i could
be able to set up out here and i'll just keep it and store it in the jeep this down here is
my little garage area if you peek in here i have lots of tools and stuff for the goat her backpack
hiking gear my plans for the future are there's a space right here on this rack and there's little
hinges back here i'm gonna have a pvc shower so it'll fill up and hold i think about seven
to eight gallons and then i could stand here and shower probably not in public but you know
so on this side of the wagon of course i had to utilize my space for advertising i have my own
youtube channel which makes me a fair amount of money to support my hiking and living like this
just a little painting here for our logo for little leaf and i obviously her horns have grown
and my hair got a lot shorter mainly because she ate it off but this side has become just more of
an advertisement and also a form of entertainment these little hooks along here um that go all along
the top i actually have a screen for a projector and i have about 600 movies in there i just kick
back and put up a projection screen when i'm in the middle of nowhere and i can watch movies so
i've extended the living quarters of my home to also include my jeep maybe not so much living for
me but little leaf and we do store a lot in here so we've built out a whole wooden structure within
the inside of my jeep there you go so when i go to the grocery store or go shopping or anything
she usually hangs out right here or when we're on long trips this goes to a halter so she's safe
and can't go through any windows and all of that and then i am a big kid so i have even more toys
in here i have a huge bag full of giant kites i have her life jacket i have a paddle board
so laundry i do laundry mats of course i don't have room for washer and dryer and i'm pretty sure
i can't figure that one out yet so on this side i have a little extra build out i got rid of the
passenger seat she can just chill and she knows all her food's down there you an apple oh yum
so i keep like her minerals her probiotics goats always have to have baking soda to eat to keep
their room in settled because they actually have multiple stomachs so they're an interesting animal
but i keep loose leaf hay down here and pellets and all of her food stuff usually stays down here
underneath so she can't get to it oh apple down so that's kind of the extension of storage and trying
to utilize every little bit of space that i have in here and then the driver's seat is pretty basic
people's opinion of me can vary you know there's crazy cat ladies and then there's the goat lady
and i don't think people really know how to scale that now she wants to be with me okay that's fine
i think there's just a lot of skepticism that this lifestyle is actually what it looks like because
the nomadic lifestyle isn't usually a lot of van life or system is really glorified and there are
a lot of things that just aren't very glorious but the give and take is totally worth it and in
my eyes this is a no-brainer and it's a lovely way to live are you the sweetest school ever
thanks for watching this week's tour i hope that you enjoyed it and i will
see you soon with another tiny or unique home tour