Wanderlust – a strong innate desire to rove or travel about. The word is German.  A wanderer is a hiker. A Wanderin is a female hiker or rambler. Wanderung, wanderweg and wanderlied are a hike, a trail, and a hiking song, respectively. Actually, the more I check out my German the more I realize that my ancestors, ze Germans, have a thing for traveling or at least a metric fuck ton of ways to refer to it. Reisen is the actual word for travel. If you have a Reisenpass you may travel about the country.

I’d love to speculate further about travel and Germans but, I don’t have the time to research this. Anyway, this is about the word and meaning od De Wanderlust. Shit. I mean Schieβe!! (I’ve forgotten most of my German Grammar!)

Ok so what about this again? Wanderlust is a strong desire to travel to understand one’s own existence. I think this website ought to be called the Wanderlust blog, but that’s been taken by hippies in retro clothing; nothing wrong with that. They have a little silver bullet of hippie stuff in…. hippie land.

“But I….” Said I, while crying, “I want to be amongst those who travel not to be a fucking hippie, but to be aware of my own existence with meaning…” Suddenly I feel like Jack Kerouac should be here. But drugs aside, I just think life should have more meaning. I’ll never know if what I’m doing is right or wrong. What decisions were the best or the worst.

I do know this, I like to wander, I like to explore and I find fun in being lost while on an adventure. I’m happiest with my life when I’m on foot, in a new place.

Oh shit. Jack is here!!.

 “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

I agree. Until then I will wander wander wander wander around L.A, The U.S.A, and whatever country I can get into.

(Edited by William Hopp)