Beginnings

Welcome to the Hitchhiking Stitch blog! Personally, I don't know why it never occurred to me to make a blog before my brother mentioned it to me a few days ago, but I have one now. Live and learn, I suppose!

Hitchhiking Stitch just kind of happened on a whim. A friend of mine (and fellow model horse enthusiast) has a Breyer donkey named Brighty that she has been traveling with ever since she was a child, and who has his own website. (Shameless plug) I always thought that was a cool idea, but never would have imagined that one day I would have my own gnome! (Gnomes are just objects that travelers bring with them and photograph at touristy spots to "prove" they've been there. Most people achieve this by "liberating" a neighbor's garden gnome, but there are just as many types of traveling companions as there are travel destinations. The Travelocity Gnome is the most famous of these.)

My freshman year of college, I got the amazing opportunity to spend two weeks in Iceland. It was (and currently still is) my first time traveling outside the United States. Understandably, I was kind of nervous, and slightly jealous of my brother, who was in Orlando with our high school band, with people he knew well and in familiar places. He got back just before I left, and being the sweet guy he is, he'd bought me a little Stitch plush at Disney World. Then it hit me: With Backpacking Brighty as my inspiration, why not make Stitch into a gnome? Thus, Hitchhiking Stitch was born. And, for the record, my time in Iceland was well spent, and I would just love to go back!

Stitch's adventures have been mostly chronicled on FaceBook, but everyone loves Blogs (right?) and Blogger can be customized much more easily than FaceBook can. And I've wanted a Blog for a while, so this seemed like a good excuse to make one, haha!

That being said, I hope you enjoy our adventures, both new and old. If you'd like to see Stitch's FaceBook page, you can find it here.

Aloha!