Wassup wit travelling gnomes?

The travelling gnome prank is a method of returning a garden gnome "to the wild". It involves stealing a gnome, taking it on a trip, and photographing it at famous landmarks with the photos being returned to the owner. There are many clubs and organizations dedicated to the prank; the best-known of these is the Garden Gnome Liberation Front.

Thanks for that insightful introduction Wikipedia.

This does sound like fun and I would love to do it but several obstacles seem to arise:

1. Returning a gnome to the wild involves stealing, and I've read somewhere about that practice being frowned upon.


2. The only other person with gnomes that I know of is my parents.


3. Travel usually involves lots of $$$


4. Gnomes would just be too heavy in your luggage.

Well funnily enough an opportunity arose for me to fly to San Francisco for very little money recently, and by very little I mean none. A friend suggested that I take a toy to photograph at 'famous' places.

This sounded almost as good as The aforementioned travelling gnome prank so I asked my daughter to pick a toy for me to take. She rushed off to her toy bins and selected her 'rainbow bunny'. I examined her choice:

1. Light weight
2. Cute looking
3. Flexible for those difficult shots
4. ...something about rainbows and San Francisco...

I know what I said, I'll take the Kiwi!

So here's a few of Kiwi's travels...

Kiwi checking out our sweet suite

Kiwi checking out the Golden Gate bridge - check out the surf

Kiwi posing around Coit tower

Kiwi sampling some fine Ghirardelli Chocolate

Kiwi atop the Crookedest Street - Lombard St.

Kiwi admiring depression era murals

Kiwi checking out the price tag - $2375.00 US

Kiwi running off the excess on the 'toddler treadmill'

Kiwi picks his favourite smelly

Yeah right Kiwi

Now you're dreaming

After a hard days travelling - he deserves it :)