What's in a Name?

When I first knew I was going to be traveling for 5 months I wanted to find an easy way to tell all my friends and family about my adventures! Let's face it we all get tired of telling the same stories over and over again and I figured this would be the easiest way to do so (and not forget any!). Now I must say picking the name of my blog was the hardest part about my whole trip. Deciding where to go, where to stay, and how to get there was the easy part, these were all snap decisions, this airline, at this hostel, on this day... but a blog that will be on the internet until the end of time? Oh my!

I had a few ideas to begin with initially but I wanted to be sure that the blog adequately described my trip as well as fit who I was as a person. Some ideas that came to me initially were: 'There and Back Again: A Short Person's Tale' but I figured there may be some copywrite infringement in there and I would rather not have to deal with that. 'An Engineer Abroad', puke, an engineer is what I do it's not necessarily who I am. Many others came and went but none of them seemed suffice.

That was until one day this winter when I had my 'Eureka' moment. I was getting ready for school and whilst digging through my basket of hats and mittens I thought to myself 'Why do you have so many toques? Because you live in Saskatchewan that's why." I thought nothing of it until my walk from the Field House to the Engineering building later that morning. I'm sure it was a cold morning and I let my mind wander to help forget about the coldest Saskatchewan winter I had ever lived through. At the advice of my friend Deena (check out her blog Shoes to Shiraz, it's quite fantastic!), I wanted something simple and catchy, but nothing too wishy washy and then it hit me, Toques and Tan Lines! And the more I looked into it the better it became. Toques is apparently a Canadian term and well tanlines is what I hope to gain on my journey (along with many memories). As a proud Saskatchewan it also seemed to hit quite well as in the winter time I live in toques but in the summer time it gets warm enough to have some pretty dark tanlines (farmer tan anyone?).

I know you were all hoping for some awesome stories, don't worry those are coming, but I just wanted to welcome you all officially to Toques and Tan Lines!

 

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