Why “KyleCaughtaCat?”
Before I dive into the content of this blog itself, a little storytime: This is a blog post I posted exactly 1 year ago. It was actually the day that we launched our original website as a whole. In August of this year, our website was hacked and our blog was overrun with spammy blog posts about gambling 😹. We were in the middle of our circumnavigational trip with Kiwi.com so we didn’t have the time or the internet to be able to address it. My dad so graciously took our login information and tried to kick out the hackers–and it looked for a few months like he had been successful. Unfortunately about 3 weeks ago, they came back. I dove into some research and realized I made some grave security mistakes when originally building our website and that the only foolproof way to recover our website from the hackers was to burn it all down and start from scratch.
Today is Nov. 20th, 2025. I just finished this new (safer) website today and thought: “what better way to turn a new leaf then to launch website 2.0 on the same day exactly one year later?” So that’s what this is. A “legacy” blog post if you will–but this time it’s being posted while I sit on the porch of an AirBNB in Albania across from Kyle as he edits the first Vietnam blog of our Kiwi.com series. I love a full circle moment. Enjoy 🙂
Why the Name “KyleCaughtaCat?” : Nov 20, 2024
In short, it was our wedding hashtag.
We got married in November of 2020, and while that (obviously) came with it’s fair share of…challenges…one of the real blessings was time.
When I (Cat) was 15 years old and making the cringiest Pinterest wedding board of all time—I did not consider one highly crucial element to DIY weddings: time.
Adults with jobs just don’t have the amount of time to plan a wedding that my idealizing 15 y/o self believed they did.
Unless, of course, you get engaged on March 8th, 2020—then you do, in fact, have all that time and more. And while I would not say we had a DIY wedding, we did spend most of our quarantine crafting wedding centerpieces, wedding favor candles, and going on runs outside when the cabin fever got too intense.
I digress… The hashtag was born on one of these runs—I know the exact place on the road—just past the Butterfly Palace here in Branson. A place I probably wouldn’t dare run now, but in the COVID world of such little traffic, made for a charming road-run with a view.
We’d been brainstorming and throwing out any and every ridiculous combination of our names we could come up with before Kyle said “KyleCaughtaCat” and we laughed so hard that we simply had to commit to it.
We created an email account using that hashtag shortly thereafter in order for us both to have access to wedding emails without it clogging up our personal inboxes.
And 2 years ago when we decided to pursue full-time travel, we started using that same shared email for any courses or subscriptions related to travel for the same reason. Over time, our kylecaughtacat email transitioned into the shared email for our travel vlog.
I don’t actually remember if there was a set time that we decided to be “KyleCaughtaCat.” To the best of my memory, it was just kinda assumed: like obviously that’s our travel channel.
It’s almost like it was just the natural next chapter of a silly but delightful little hashtag.
It’s silly, creative, and maybe a little confusing. Seems fitting. 😉
-Cat & Kyle
