Insights from 80+ travel blogger names

"Well, I'd just gotten catastrophically lost during a 66-mile mountain bike. As in, wandering nine miles off course and search parties assembling sort of lost! This was at about the same time I was looking for a blog name. I thought about LostJustin.com, but that didn't seem authoritative or confidence inspiring! I thought ‘wandering’ had a nice connotation of intentional, yet willing to roll with the punches. At this point, I knew nothing about SEO and how I really wanted to carve out my own piece of the internet. In that regard, this name is one of my biggest errors in blogging. If I'd known a tenth of what I do now about blogging, I'd have a different name."

“I wanted something that represented me and what I focus on in my travels. I love adventure and outdoors, so I thought it was a good idea to focus on that niche. Then having 'world' in my name opened it to everyone. I would've gone for just 'Adventurous World' but it was taken, hence 'An Adventurous World”

“I love going on new adventures and I have a huge desire for wanderlust. Therefore, I thought the name perfectly described who I am as a traveller of the world.”

“I started my blog in 2012 and, to be honest, my memory on coming up with the name is a little fuzzy. I know at that point I was in university and feeling very stuck in my life. I just wanted to get out there and explore! But I wasn't, and still am not, the kind of person who quits a job to go hike up a mountain or jump out of a plane. So I knew I wanted adventure, but just a tiny taste of it. And that's how I landed on Teaspoon of Adventure.”

“I wanted to reference the title of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road"

“I was looking for something that would look and sound catchy but without using my name or any personal note in it. I don't plan to sell it but you never know.

“First I decided what I wanted to write about and then started mixing and matching words that had to do with my subject.

“It didn't take me long to come up with Trip and Trail. It is just three syllables, its sound has a natural flow and on paper it looks balanced and simple. When I asked a few friends and they also found it catchy and relevant, I knew that I had a blog name.”

“I liked the idea of having alliteration in my blog name and, with such a saturated market, a lot of the more obvious travel-related names were taken (even back in 2011). 'Beyond Blighty' was a way to show international readers where I was from, and to indicate that I'd be writing about far-flung destinations. In hindsight, I think my SEO might have been better if my blog name contained a word more closely associated with travel. I've also had to explain to a lot of non-Brits what 'Blighty' means!”

“It’s derived from an Australian saying ‘a cut lunch and a water bag.’

“Australia is a big place – 3,860 km/2,398 miles from top to bottom and 4,000 km/2,485 miles wide. In the outback whenever someone asks “how far is that?” a common response is to say ‘that’s a cut lunch and water bag’ – meaning it’s a long way off, a good distance.

“What’s a water bag you may ask? It’s typically a canvas bag that is hooked onto the front of a car or a 4WD using a ‘roo’ or ‘bull’ bar while driving across the harsh environment of Australia. Having air pass over the damp bag – the faster the air, the colder the water – is why it’s mounted on the front of a moving vehicle. As ‘cut lunch and water bag’ was a bit of a mouthful, it was shortened to just ‘Cut Lunch.’”

“My blog is specifically focussed on my home country of Scotland so it was important to tap into that very Scottish perception. I have travelled with my kilt long before starting this blog and it's been a regular companion and conversation starter wherever I've been. On a practical level, I genuinely enjoy wearing it at formal events and, equally, when hiking or exploring. Plus, fundamentally, everyone loves kilts. Their fun appearance, their family story and the tradition behind them.”

“I’ve always been an adventurous kind of guy. When I was 5 years old, I was running up some stone steps at a remote farm in the Lake District (UK) when I slipped and split my head open. Several butterfly stitches later and I was back running up those same steps, hoping to explore a new corner of the farm I hadn’t uncovered yet.

“I still have that same zest for exploring and adventure, over 30 years later. Whilst I try and discover new countries every year, I also try to experience new adventures and skills, in countries new and old.

“The 'bagging' part of the blog name is also a nod to my Lancashire upbringing in the North of England. For anyone not from Lancashire, 'baggin' is a local dialect term which means food, or meal. As you’ll see when you browse around the blog, a large portion of the content is related to food, both in the UK and across different countries. Bagging also means 'securing something,’ and is a common phrase in walking mountains ('hill bagging') which is a core focus of the blog.

“Adventure = travel and experiences in the UK and beyond. Bagging = food and/or accomplishment. Thus: Adventure Bagging.”

“I started off with a parenting blog which had a focus on days out with kids. As such we were often travelling a couple of hours or more to various locations and my daughter used to pipe up ‘are we nearly there yet’ when we were 5 minutes up the road and it has stuck with us. She is 8 now and still says the phrase when we are travelling, although it is said as more tongue-in-cheek these days.”

“My son used to say ‘no back home mama’ when we were out exploring.”

“Let me be free’ by Xavier Rudd is our family song. We are often on road trips with our two small children, when they are fed up with being in the car and food or toys will not calm them down we simply play ‘Let me be free’ and there is silence. It has this soothing effect and it has become our travel anthem.”

“Based on the English saying ‘the world is your/my oyster’ as in, the world is yours to make the most of.”

“Traxplorers, it's a combination of two words i.e. Travelers and Explorers which completely describes us. After a very long discussion we coined this term. We were very excited to find its availability for our travel blog which just now became two years old.”

“I started my blog when I was pregnant with my first daughter. So a fair amount of hormones contributed to the creation of the name!

“I remember thinking that I wanted it to be clear that my blog was about travel, with a nod to caravanning, which was our weekend hobby.

“As it turns out, not many people realised that 'Tin Box' meant 'caravan'. It has worked in our favor as the name is actually quite flexible. Ships, planes, trains and all kinds of other ways of traveling can be 'Tin Boxes.’ Today we do all sorts of holidays with our kids including camping, resort breaks and cruises so the name has grown with us.”

“I was focused on starting holidays for solo mums and their kids, and so the name was a play on the word Wolfpack. In hindsight I should have just gone with something simple like travel mum or solo mum travels. I think it’s better to not be tricky and have a simple name that describes what you do. Thank goodness I have travel in the name.”

“We wanted to make sure it was all about the family, and said what it was. I was also working for the London Times at that time, so when my son suggested it, it all seemed to make sense! It summed us up — we would be writing, as a family, about our travel times!”

“I like alliteration, first of all. And ‘ruminating’ is how I tend to write. I let an idea stew and work it over in the back of my head for days or weeks or months until finally it all comes out on paper, pretty much fully formed. ‘Ruminating’ means thinking things over, but it's also what a cow does when it chews and re-chews its food.”

“Ironically, I didn't come up with the name on my own. I was co-hosting a local radio show, and the host and I were chatting about how much I loved to travel. Off the cuff, he mentioned that I should host a travel show and call it ‘Travel Like a Prince’ because my last name is Prince. I laughed it off because what a dream having my own show would be!

“The name stuck in my mind because he came up with it so easily, and it's such a play on words. I didn't become the host of a travel show (there's still time, right?), but when I started my blog, there was never a question in my mind as to what the name would be.

“Sometimes people look at me a bit funny when I tell them the name of my blog —mostly because I'm a female, so shouldn't it be "princess?" Once they realize my last name is Prince, they get it and love the name. I do, too, and I am so thankful for my friend who mentioned the name so long ago.”

“I wanted something to show adventure travel as I absolutely love to challenge myself and get off the beaten track. However, I wanted something that had my name (Ed Rex) in it so, Adventures became Edventures. For Rexy, well, a lot of people call me sexy Rexy so thought I'd call it Rexy Edventures meaning 'Sexy Adventures!'”

“I just used my own name (Emily Luxton)! Originally, the blog was going to be more like a portfolio of my writing so I gave it my own name. When it evolved into a travel blog it was too late to change the URL!”

“‘Winter escape’ is a common phrase in the tourism industry and my last name is Winter, so I thought it was a cute play on words.”

“It was all a bit random. I was trying to find something that wasn't already taken but that also had travel in the title. Looking back on it, I should have gone with ‘the blonde abroad’ (it was on my list of ideas and has now become a successful brand) but my ex said ‘what if you change your hair color?’ Anyway, I had a lot of Australian friends and they kept calling me ‘pommie’ (it's the Aussie nickname for a British person). I first had a Blogspot blog called ‘Pommie in Australia,’ which I started when I was traveling in Oz. Later on when I was starting a proper WordPress blog, I decided to just go with ‘Pommie Travels.’ I was tired of trying to think of ideas so just ran with it. I'm not really a fan of the name but it's what I'm known as and it would be too difficult to change it now.”

“I originally started this blog shortly after I moved to Alaska in 2005, to update friends and family on my new life in the Frozen North. From 2005 to 2010, the blog was called ‘Up in Alaska,’ a subtle reference to a lyric by Modest Mouse. When I moved away in 2010, I needed to change the name. ‘Outside’ is a term Alaskans use to described the Lower 48. I'm also a person who spends a lot of time outside, and my blog is primarily about personal outdoor adventure. Thus, ‘Jill Outside.’"

“I wanted a play on my name ‘Lo’ that also showed I was an expert. The Lowdown was already taken by Lo Bosworth.”

“I wanted the blog name to have a personal element (that's why I chose my name to be in there). Also, I wanted to say that it's about ‘traveling/moving around/not staying in the same place’ while still keeping it general enough to be able to use it in different fields as well. ‘Lena On The Move’ started out as a blog, but has become a brand that I also use to offer digital services.”

“My nickname is ‘Jones,’ and it's a travel blog so ‘around the world’ was fitting. I was also listening to a lot of Daft Punk's song ‘Around the World,’ as well as ABGT 'Trance Around The World’ at the time.”

“We wanted the word 'travel' in the blog name for SEO reasons. Our last name is Templeman so 'The Travel Temple' seemed like the perfect name for our travel blog.”

“I put out a call for a brainstorming sessions in a Facebook post, and my current name was among those that were suggested by my peers.”

“My last name is Burger and I travel abroad.”

“I wanted something catchy but also which was flexible in case I ever wanted to change the focus of the blog — so I thought about puns related to travel and how I could use my name, and 'On the Luce' came to me as a variation of 'On the Loose' to cover escape, travel and exploring the world.”

“Simply an idea to serve Italian expatriates in the UK with fresh a guide and inspiration to travel abroad. Get over the fear to get out of the comfort zone and be a citizen of the world.”

“We inspire others to travel — so ‘To Travel Too’ means we would love you to come travel with us too!”

“Our blog is mainly about two of our shared passions — snowboarding and travel. We plan most of our travel around places to snowboard. For us, the excitement of snowboarding includes the discovery and exploration of new mountains and terrain, immersing ourselves in the culture and the environment at the same time. Calling our blog ‘The Snow Chasers’ seemed so logical and relevant to us. It is exactly what we do, we chase the snow.”

“We wanted to share our personal story of when we quit our job, packed our bags and left our parents’ home for the first time to travel the world, hence the name ‘Flying the Nest’ — it has now been 5 years since we have flown the nest.”

“We came up with a long list of name ideas around the idea of quitting work to travel or taking a travel sabbatical. After narrowing it down to five, we ran a small survey aimed at people in our main target audience (affluent millennials). We combined the outcomes of the survey with our long-term vision to build the blog into a community, and chose the name that was the best fit — ‘Career Gappers.’”

“When we made our decision in 2005 to sell most of our possessions and go traveling for an indeterminate period, most of our friends told us we'd never do it. So we were partly looking for a name that thumbed our noses at these naysayers! We also wanted to encourage other people to just go. We had both recently turned 50 and were about to borrow a lot of money to build a big house. One day we just said ‘NO.’ We had always talked of traveling South America and decided it might be now or never. We were looking for a name that encompassed what we were planning to do. Juergen started brainstorming. Every now and then he would share some of his ideas with Yasha. It was an ongoing process during the time we were working towards packing up our lives and working out the details of the next step.”

“The name is a play on empty nesters that travel all of the time. We began it right after our youngest left home for college and we sold our house and took off in a motorhome.”

“It wasn't the first choice but it was on the initial list. The name is a twist on the Ricky Martin song ‘Living la Vida Loca.’ We thought instead of the crazy life we aspire to live the global life, and so the name was created.”

“‘Travel To Blank’ was simply the first name that we came up with that actually had not already been purchased. Originally it was not even in our first 50 name ideas, but we knew we needed a name that had an available URL and social media handles.

“The idea for creating a travel blog came out of our time living in Ecuador, where we often traveled to a new city or destination on the weekends. There were some instances where we would pack our bags, pile in the car before one of us asked where we were actually going! Neither of us had a plan at that moment on where to travel next. We knew we wanted to go away for the weekend as we had the time, the destination would come later. It was these instances that inspired the name ‘Travel To Blank,’ as we were ready to travel, just needed to insert the destination. We Travel To ... Blank!”

“The name of our travel blog is a phrase that came from my Mom. Whenever we would take a wrong turn or get lost on a road trip when I was a kid, she'd always stay positive and say we're ‘Just chasing rabbits.’"

“We had already been to 40-plus countries before we started our travel blog. We travelled on Indian passports, which meant hundreds of visas resulting in multiple passport booklets and bruised and battered passports from all the stamps. We could not think of a better name than Bruised Passports given the situation of our passports and our love for travel.”

“Looked at names available in the luxury sector that also had social media handles available.”

“I travel to unusual places around the world.”

“The name 'Only By Land' was inspired by large trips I have completed, only by land. I have completed many large overland trips, most recently from Lisbon, Portugal to Tehran, Iran — only by land.”

“My idea for my blog was that I (someone who worked in travel for 24 years) wanted to advise people how to book holidays, where to find the best deals and give destination advice. The ‘Travel Expert’ seemed like a good fit.”

“After brainstorming a bit, I decided to focus on two words and two thoughts:

“* Worthy: Whether it's a mainstream place or a virtually unknown place, you want to know whether it's a good place to go. You turn to TripAdvisor, then pause and consider how many of the tens of thousands of the reviews you'll actually read, or what they'll actually tell you. My goal with a post is to share if a place is worthy, and what makes it worth your time, money, and energy.

“* Go: I don't want you to just *read* about the place. Don't take my word for it. My posts usually have directions, hours, the address, admission costs, and so on — all the details you need to get there yourself.

“As someone who used to work 9-5(+) as a lawyer, I found that a lot of people always made the excuse that they didn't have time to travel. When I started the site to record the travel I had done around my own full-time job, it made sense that the message should be that everyone can 'Make Time To See The World' if they really want to.”

“After a cancer diagnosis I used travel as a way to recover from the physical and mental aspects of treatment and diagnosis. I aim to encourage others to use travel as a way of recovering from illness break ups and general stresses of life therefore travel to recovery was the best name for my blog as it sums it all up.”

“I was thinking about SEO and what might be a popular search term in Google. I figured having ‘travel blogger’ in the title might help my website gain some traffic. I also decided there weren't that many blogs with a focus on American travel.”

“When I started my travel blog, it was focused solely on my experience studying and then working abroad in Spain. My friends in Spain and I always joked about how frequently Spaniards say the words ‘venga,’ ‘vale,’ and ‘vamos,’ so I figured it was perfect for my Spain blog. Spaniards usually use this phrase as filler (along the lines of, ‘Yeah, okay, sounds good’), but I like that its rough translation of ‘Come on, okay, let's go’ is appropriate for a travel blog, even as I've expanded from Spain content.”

“I spent a long time trying to come up with the perfect name. I was quite young at the time, and if I'm being perfectly honest, most of my other ideas were pretty rubbish! 🙂 "Girl vs. Globe" represents several things. It's about feeling like it's just you against the world sometimes. It's about fighting back against societal norms and expectations. And finally, it's about travel — pure and simple. Plus, I love alliteration which definitely played a role.”

“As far as I remember, there was no time in my life when I was not traveling. I would give all the credit to my parents for that. My dad worked as a police officer and he used to get a lot of transfers, so we went along with him all the time. As a result, I completed my schooling in five different schools. My dad always used to take us out even after his tiring job and my mom always supported the idea. Even when he was traveling for work, he used to take us along and made us explore different cities. I don't even remember my first flight as I was too small but I remember my first international journey at the age of 12. If we ever overslept in the hotel, my dad used to scold us by saying, ‘have we come all this way to sleep? Common, get up, let's start exploring.’ So, basically this was my childhood. The idea of traveling, exploring, making new friends, learning about different cultures was instilled in me since the beginning, and that's why I call myself a traveler by birth. It runs in my blood. Hence, the name of my blog.”

“As a consultant, I get the opportunity to travel for work quite a bit. Originally my blog was a generic travel blog where I was documenting neat places I was traveling to for work. I called the blog "Travel After Five" because essentially I couldn't see any sites until after 5 p.m. My blog gradually transformed into a strictly business travel blog, with the name ‘Travel After Five’ being a perfect fit.”

“I’d always struggled with travel anxiety despite being an ardent travel fan (alas, anxiety never follows logical rules!), and I was reading an article about the types of travelers you see in an airport. Someone made a comment along the lines of “that anxious traveler who looks like they’re about to pass out, lol lol lol,” which I thought was incredibly callous, and lacking understanding of what people with fears of flying, leaving a comfort zone, or generalized anxiety actually go through. So I called my site ‘That Anxious Traveller’ to make it a positive thing. People who suffer from the same issues can empathise with it, and feel like it’s ‘their’ site — not just something that applies to me as the blog owner. I try to provide travel anxiety advice and destination inspiration/step-by-step guides, to prove that travel anxiety can definitely be overcome!”

“It was derived from a book title. Being a woman in her mid fifties the idea came from the popular book of the time titled ‘50 Shades of Grey.’”

“This site is named after a Canada Goose (Branta Canadensis) because they fly in a V-formation. This very clever trick allows the lead goose to take the majority of the wind resistance, making it easier for the geese behind it to fly.

“We hope for a parallel of this idea within the travel community. Experienced travelers share their knowledge with first-timers, making their journey easier and less scary. We offer practical tips so you can make your travel dream a reality.

“By flying ahead of others, we can make the journey easier for everyone.

“Also, during the migration, the geese rotate so they each take a turn being the leader. This is why we sometimes publish guest posts by travelers who have been to places we haven’t.

“Wild geese are strong and tough animals on their own, but when they are united they can rely on each other and fly farther than they ever could alone. We travelers are birds of a feather, so we should flock together. This concept is what our name refers to and why we believe in helping other travelers.”

“It's from a story my grandmother always told about me: While watching a three-year-old me dance around in front of the TV, my grandmother claims to have remarked, ‘You could be a ballerina when you grow up.’ I stopped dancing and looked seriously at my grandmother. ‘No!’ I answered, verging on tears. ‘I’m going to be a writer.’ When I decided to be a writer online, that's what came to mind!”

“I spent several weeks brainstorming names. I wrote down an enormous list of possibilities. I carried a notebook with me. Then I had a dream of my site's name and woke up and wrote it. The next morning I simply knew it was the right name. I bought the URL 10 minutes later.”

“Combining the words travel and ingenuity.”

“I knew my niche was budget travel and I wanted something that reflected this in an original and lighthearted way. The name just came to me.”

“Navigatio is Latin for ‘the voyage/journey.’ As my website is a travel/expat blog. I felt like this fit perfectly. I share my ‘voyages’ and journeys from my travels, but also the journey of my life living abroad.”

“I had a long list of possible names and this was the only domain name that was available. It was a travel blog written by a woman for women so it made sense that it had something to do with women who will go here, there and everywhere.”

“I didn’t want to use my own name on social media. Neither did my husband. He used the pen name ‘Kami Nantes’ which is a play on a Spanish poem which means ‘he who walks’ or wanders making his own path. Since he had that name I thought I should be Mrs. Nantes. But now I needed a first name.

“I’ve always been a fan of ‘Star Trek’ and I thought ‘Talek’ meant ‘success’ in Klingon. But apparently my Klingon was rusty because that’s not how you say success in Klingon. But now I was stuck with the name ‘Talek Nantes’ so I created the blog ‘Travels with Talek.’

Looking back I should have chosen a blog name that addresses my niche, older women travelers.”

“As I readied to go on a trip to Paris with my mum in October of 2016, I decided that I didn't want to bombard my personal Instagram account's followers with images of my trip (I knew that there would be a lot of them). With this in mind, I decided to create an entirely new account, exclusively for my travel photos. I love the word ‘wander,’ as opposed to the blander and overused word ‘travel,’’ and because of this, I knew the new Instagram handle would have to incorporate that somehow.

“I pulled out a physical piece of paper and pen and wrote down words I thought could pair nicely with ‘wander.’ So many potential names came to mind, but it was the play on the word ‘wondrous’ that had me hooked. As well, I had felt like I was having an affair on my day-to-day life by taking these days to escape from my home city of Toronto in order to dive head-first into my favorite city on earth.

“Ultimately, that's how I decided on ‘Wanderous Affair,’ and I haven't turned back since. I've since launched my travel blog and a quarterly travel magazine, filled with stories and photography from wanderers around the globe. The bottom line is that we are a community of people possessing an underlying passion for exploration and self-discovery.”

“It started as a Facebook Messenger group at work. Milton (35-year-old and Asian) and myself (59-year-old and Caucasian) have a common love of all things travel and especially how to maximize points. We would share the tips with other people at work, the brotherhood. It was an eclectic group of individuals with a passion for using points for first class travel. We use the classical meaning of the name.”

“The name had to show my love of food and travel. I never write about places I have not visited. It made sense to find words that would work together to explain what my blog is about and also hint at the fact that sometimes there would be a story to be told as well.”