One day, I was sitting on my door, minding my own business... watching people go past. I liked my door. I liked this shop. I heard someone talking about me.
Before I knew it, the world was spinning! I was moving... somewhere. Outside! How exciting! How bright! I remembered this feeling. This was what it was like to be "worn". I wanted to be worn for the rest of my life.
But the good times didn't last. I found myself in the dark. I found myself in the dark for a very very long time.
After what felt like an eternity, I saw light! I got to be worn again!
My new wearer's name is Scott. He says that I'd come all the way from Shawnee, Oklahoma to Auckland, New Zealand.
I didn't know what a Zealand was.
Scott said he had a mission.
And so a month later, we left on the mission.
The road was beautiful. Scott let me see out the whole time.
He said he was taking him to see Joseph.
Joseph had helped him out a lot a while ago and Scott wanted to say thankyou.
I even got to meet Ondra, Scott's friend who was driving us!
But Ondra could only take us about half way, then he had to drop us off again.
Scott said we'd have to hitchhike the rest of the way.
I'd never hitchhiked before.
We got picked up by a man named Ron, in a big big truck!
He dropped us off in Te Kaha. Scott said we'd travelled 400 km that day and it was time to take a rest.
We tried to go to this 'backpackers' place. They wouldn't let us stay.
It was getting so windy... I thought I'd get blown away.
Scott decided we should stay in this old abandoned building.
I'll admit it... I was scared.
In the morning, we got on the road again.
More hitchhiking....
I met some really nice people. Unfortunately i didn't sit on all of their heads.
It seemed like we were going pretty slowly.
Scott was getting worried. The sun was going down and we had so far to go. We'd seen maybe 7 cars in the last 3 hours. No one wanted to stop for us.
I could tell he was kind of sad that we wouldn't get to Joseph.
Scott had promised Joseph that he'd bring him a cowboy hat. He was about to give up and that's not something he wanted to do.
Just as we started heading back the other way... We got a ride!
And another, and another and another!
Until we ended up in Tikitiki - in a pub. Scott told me this was kind of like a Saloon.
We met Pat and a few other folks.
They told us where to find Joseph!
We found Joseph's place. He wasn't around. I got to meet his horses and cows and turkeys though.
He has a microwave for a mailbox - Scott put me in there for safe-keeping.
I hope Joseph comes back soon.
Scott said he had to go. I'll miss him, but I'm glad I could help him.
