When I started it four years ago, "Journey" was not a buzzword and not a popular name of Gen Y-er's kids. (The "Ashley" of the TwoThousandTeens) So I've changed my name to Trip. (It was short notice. I could change it again.)
I really like Journey In Place. I came up with the name and the idea, and I still live by it. (On days I remember to live. What? Some days I go into AutoPilot. Shame on me.) But I sound like a damn wannabe with this name Journey. I sound like I read cute little helpful watered-down inspirational books available at Wal-Mart. I do not read cute little inspirational books! I hate cute inspiration!
To be completely honest, though, I don't always 100% hate Wal-Mart, so there. Sometimes the place is damn handy, especially late at night when I need emergency frijoles negros, wiper blades, a phone charger, and a cute hoodie on clearance for $5.
So...new name? Brainstorming...
Earth Tripper
Earth to Me
How To...(Fill in the Blank)
Station Wagon Kid (I'm not a kid)
Stories from the Station Wagon (I don't actually have a station wagon.)
So I types "Journey" into Thesaurus.com (a writer's favorite website), and I find the gem--
VAGABONDAGE!!!!!
I've heard of Vagabond.
But truth be told, I've never heard of VagabondAGE!
It is the most contradictory word I've ever seen--one part meaning transient and one part meaning stuck!
Vagabond:
1.
wandering from place to place without any settled home; nomadic:
a vagabond tribe.
2.
leading an unsettled or carefree life.
3.
disreputable; worthless; shiftless.
4.
of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagabond:
vagabond habits.
5.
having an uncertain or irregular course or direction:
a vagabond voyage.
I am sort of aimless, truth be told.
I don't know where I'm going.
(Must not follow up with Whitesnake lyric, "But I do know where I've been...")
I am MOST CERTAINLY UNCERTAIN MOST OF THE TIME.
Irregular. Yes.
Unsettled. Hmm. Sort of.
I started this blog as a means to help myself feel more settled.
Carefree. Well to some people I probably seem carefree because I do not have children. But I care, people! I care! About Stuff! All Kinds of it!
Okay, Definition 3, I really don't need your judgement! But, hell. Why lie? Who here actually knows me? Might as well tell the truth. I have at one time or another in minute degrees been or felt "disreputable," "worthless," and "shiftless."
Here's another doozy of a word to describe this whole business! Oh words, I love you so!
Peregrination!
1.
travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
2.
Is it the opposite of Origination?
a course of travel; journey.
A synonym is to vagabond is
TRAMP.
I like Tramp.
It can be a noun or a verb.
I like it when one word can be both.
I like the verb:
3.
to walk steadily; march; trudge.
I like TRAMP as a name.
But so would some UNSAVORY types.
So Trip it is.
It works.
I take trips.
What a trip.
As a verb, I trip a lot, literally and metaphorically.
(Must not follow up with lyric by mid-nineties song by band whose name I never bothered to learn that goes "but I get up again, you ain't never gonna keep me down." Oh wait. I don't often GET knocked down. I more often do that to myself. I trip. I'm a tripper. A Day Tripper.
Day By Day Tripping with the Tramp
No, wait!
It's not TRIP anymore.
It's now Peregrine!
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