A few posts ago I hinted darkly of the perambulating goings-ons Mrs Widds and I are undertaking next year, namely that of heading to parts East-North-East in our trusty travel-trailer until we find our forever home.
In a fit of absolute insanity I also committed myself to chronicling the entire thing on video … and now I have to figure out how to do it. (I don’t know why I do this to myself, I really don’t) I am confident that YouTube will have instructional videos on how to put videos on YouTube. (which is a perfect example of ‘meta’)
Any author will tell you that sometimes the hardest part of writing a story, (that isn’t actually the story itself) is figuring out the title. This is also true of finding a name for your, to-date, completely theoretical, YouTube channel.
Mrs Widds and I put our heads together and came up with … nothing. Which was surprising … we’re usually rather good at that sort of thing.
That night as I lay in a deep doze in-between bathroom visits, (I’d drunk way too many cups of tea for my bladder to readily forgive) it came to me .. The Wunder-Lusters, (a play on ‘wunderlust’) because we’ll be wandering to all points of the compass in our adventures. (who knows, we might even venture to the Atlantic Ocean, or even the Arctic one! …Tuktoyatuk, here we come!)
Next was the tag-line, or sub-heading. That was easy. At that point, in my mind’s eye the entire thing looked something like this …
4 wheels on the truck and 4 on the trailer …you’re wondering what the dots after the word ‘and’ are for, aren’t you?
Well, if you’ve been around here for a while you’ve probably already surmised the rest of the line is, ‘no fucks given’ … which, as much as I heartily approve of the sentiment, it might be a bit too outré for YouTube, and not what I want to be part of that vital ‘first impression’ anyway.
Any thoughts on what else I could use?
(I did come up with an alternative that I’m … hmm … OK with – 2 Women, 8 Wheels: The Adventure Begins/Continues … but I’m not overly fond of it. It sounds like a sequel that nobody wants, to a movie that no-one saw)
Our ‘rig’ (I love that term, it’s so on-the-road-ish) on our 2015 cross-country adventure at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta
Widdershins Worlds 
I am, I admit, green with envy…
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😀 … there are times when I’m all glow-y with excitement, and others when I’m green with, well, it’s not envy I tell you! 😀 … but mostly it’s somewhere in the middle with a slight lean to excitement. 🙂
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I can imagine… it is a huge step, but has all the hallmarks of being a fantastic adventure too. 🙂
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Indeed it does! 😀
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GREAT PHOTOGRAPH ON A FANTASTIC POST, CHINA
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Thanks, China. 🙂
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Two women, eight wheels and a great many ever-changing horizons.
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Has potential. 🙂
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on a forever home search
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So am I! This is something we should have done years ago… sigh…
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Mrs Widds is 70 and I’m 61. We figure it’s now or never.
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Good for you both, I’m in awe!
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Reblogged this on anita dawes and jaye marie.
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Looks like a great rig! On the road eh – that’s sounds like a fantastic trip – I’ll have to have a think about the Utube thing as to how to – yes UTube will def have a couple of those videos
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I’m almost feeling brave enough to start watching them. 😀 … funny isn’t it, that fear of new beginnings. 🙂
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Reframe fear into excitement and smile whether you feel like it or not – it tricks your mind – it works – believe me I’ve been terrified and smiling and it calms me down. Mad hey?
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Fear … does keep you sharp though. 🙂
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Razor 🤓
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It looks like a great set up and the trip sounds brilliant. Wids Way was the name that popped into my mind but it’s probably silly – I’m very tired right now. Good luck and have fun – I’d love to do something like that. 😊
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Widds Way might work, certainly from an alliterative perspective, but ‘widds’ is more my thing, and this journey is about both of us. 🙂
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I don’t care what it’s called, I can’t wait to tune in!!
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😀 … we’re thinking early in the new year. That’s when things start moving from the wish-list stage of planning to the downright terrifying ‘do it’ stage. 🙂
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“Two Women, Eight Wheels” – snappy and short. I don’t think anything else is required to say what you want to say. It reminds me of the book title Parnassus on Wheels.
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Thinks … hmm … writes it down … says it out loud … will think upon it s’more. 😀
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How exciting! Can’t wait to vicariously live the adventures!!
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That’s how I got hooked on to this whole video thing – watching other people’s adventures! 😀
… It has a great deal to do with finding our tribes, I think. When the world was smaller we knew a great many people in our immediate surroundings, family, extended family, friends, those who lived and worked around us, etc. In this ‘modern era’ a great many of those circles have moved online … to blogs and YouTube, so that’s where we go to seek them out. 🙂
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I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. Not “finding a tribe”, but noting how isolated modern life is. And noticing how curated and antiseptic online interactions are. Not exactly fake, but highly selective and not as meaning-filled as we crave from IRL relationships. I hope your adventures give you the chance to bridge these worlds.
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We’re going to try and get it as close to ‘warts-n-all’ as we can. 🙂
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What an adventure! Good luck. 🙂
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Thanks … we’re going to need all the good luck we can get. 🙂
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Props ! ! !
How about……..
2 Women, 8 Wheels: Twenty-three skidoo
2 Women, 8 Wheels: Double whammy
2 Women, 8 Wheels: To the nth degree
2 Women, 8 Wheels: En Route to Cloud Nine
2 Women, 8 Wheels, Four Corners of the Earth
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Mathematically they’re all exquisite!
Particular kudos to Whammy and Four Corners.
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‘double the whammy’ is growing on me. 🙂
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Excellent list … will thing thoughts about them. 🙂 … um … what does twenty-three skidoo mean though?
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I had to look several of these up myself. The “positive” definition is sort of “getting out while the getting’s good.”
🙂
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Heh. 🙂 … that’s about right! 😀
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Oh, Girl, I love an adventure in the making. Wunder-lusters, good one!
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Scary-marvelous!!! 😀
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I gotta agree with Wunder-lusters too, for its cheeky *wink* factor, lol 🙂
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😀
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This sounds incredibly exciting!!! Thank you for following my blog.
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Thanks. 🙂 … the swing between terror and elation is smoothing out with the passage of time … at least at this stage of the game! 😀
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Great read thankyyou
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You’re very welcome … glad you enjoyed it.
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