What's In A Domain Name
Our site has been basically good to go (at least to share with close family and friends) for about two weeks now, but only one thing is holding us back: the name!
For almost as long as we've been planning the trip, we've been half-jokingly calling it the Millennial Falcon, as a wink to the fact that we are completely self-aware that leaving our respectable jobs and beautiful apartment in a wonderful city in order to live in a van for a year is a totally obnoxious Millennial thing to do. (Insert argument here about whether we really qualify as Millennials because we remember Life Before The Internet and we're different than people more than five years younger than us but we're not Gen Xers either etc etc etc.) Problem was, every time we said it out loud, it induced a collective groan (and not in a "that pun is so bad it's good" sort of way). Plus, see note above about whether we're even Millennials.
In the meantime, the Millennial Falcon was made into a (pretty terrible) meme, and now it seems off the table for good.
But oh, what shall it be? A rose by any other name...
We've spent hours combing through domain name sites trying to come up with something that sits in the middle of the Venn diagram of clever, unique, and available. Such witty options include: happycampervan, vanomads, vanderers, vanfrancisco, vantasticjourney/vantasticvoyage, thevanimals, runrunrunjump, van solo (keeping with the Star Wars theme), vanderlust (like wanderlust but with a van pun), schmooze cruise, gallivant schmallivant, and datvandoe.
...We may have our other strengths, but coming up with puntastic names may not be one of them.