Random Monday's: The Steemit Name Challenge

Hello Steemians Friends,

It's back to the daily grind for most of us! We hope everyone had a fantastic weekend! Although, we worked, we had a great time. Our saying is: 'If we're earning, we're not burning (cash)'. As Lil Dicky would say 'You got to Save Dat Money'. Que music:

Anyway, we're going off the point here as always!

We were recently nominated by Hive account@fitrianizar for this #steemitnamechallenge. We accept the challenge! Hive account@fitrianizar is a new Steemian and she has been inspired by our travel writing and experience, which we are so grateful for. This is our purpose for starting this blog, but we're getting ahead of ourselves as the reason behind our Steemit username is the purpose. And therefore, if we spill the beans now, this would be our shortest post ever (word count so far: 146). So, before we go on with our story, we would like to thank Hive account@taskmaster4450 for creating this intriguing challenge and let us reminder ourselves of the rules:

The Rules

Tell us in a post how you chose your current Steemit username. The story behind it.
Tell us your real name!
If you could change your current username, which name would you choose and why? If you have a possible usernames list, mention it!
Use the tag #steemitnamechallenge so that the creator of the challenge can track all the posts and check them out.
Nominate 5 people for this challenge.

We're going to do this in reverse order to be annoying and different, but mainly the first reason.

Our Nominations

Hive account@hotboxtheplanet (new Steemian)
Hive account@wallawallabree (new Steemian)
Hive account@hr1 (we've been privileged to get his/her upvote for time to time, but got no clue who is behind this mysterious account...and we probably won't)
Hive account@scrooger (team member behind Hive account@qurator)
Hive account@travellit (never got to ask them during our meet-up in Chiang Mai)

Guys, you have been nominated so we hope to see your posts up and running soon!

What Would Our New Username Be? And Why?

We never really gave our username on Steemit a thought. We were desperate to get started, but we knew creating our username should be travel related and so we did a trial and error until we got our username. We did think of combining our names like 'Samecca' or 'Secca' or 'Beam', but those names do not really have an identify that everyone could relate to. So, if we could change our Steemit name, we would go for 'lost-and-found', which is sometimes the feeling we get as we're still searching for a place to real feel comfortable and call home OR 'temporarydisplaced' - comes from 'Temporary' and 'Displaced' (if you couldn't figure that puzzle out). Again, it's from the feeling we get from time to time. It would have suited us more as we're not constantly travelling and many people get confused, so why are you called 'travelling-two' then?!

Tell Us Your Real Names

There's two of us, so you'll be getting two. Hive account@travelling-two is made up of Samuel (Sam for short) Lefevre and Rebecca (Becca for short) Slade. Sam is a mixture of English, Thai and seasoned with a bit of French (can't speak it though). Becca is English, but had her upbringing in Portugal.

Sam and Becca

Hunting for Street Art in Penang

The Story Behind The Name: Hive account@travelling-two

Once Upon A Time In A Land Far Far Away...

Oh, wait, that's a different story. We're picking up the wrong books here. Bare with us....

Now, where did we leave it???

Here, it is! Some time later this week, it will be Sam's and Becca's three year anniversary #relationshipgoals. Ever since we first started dating back in 2015, we always had one passion in common and that was to explore the world. Due to Sam's upbringing, he already covered three continents before he was an adult (18), which stretched from Australia to Spain. This upbringing might have its advantage of being cultural aware and give you a global perspective (some key words from his CV right there), but what it leaves behind is a foundation. Where were his roots? Was he equally English and Thai or was he none, but all. He is known as a Third Culture Kid (parents from two different countries, but he grew up in several other countries). The traits of a Third Culture Kid are that they don't feel like they belong anywhere, but feel accepted everywhere. Can you catch that drift? It's almost a contradiction, but it ain't. This feeling is why he loves to travel and explore new cultures because he feels he can easily integrate, however, maybe secretly he is looking for a place to call 'home'. Becca caught the travel bug in her teens when she made several trips to Southern Africa (mainly Mozambique). Her father was based out there for work and she fell in love with the scenery, the hardworking, but equally laid-back lifestyle and of course, the nature and environment. She had only explored parts of Europe and Africa, but upon meeting Sam (that's for another post), she has covered another continent (and 12 countries). They will continue their travel adventures together!

So, why the name? You didn't answer the god damn question!!! Why Hive account@travelling-two because there's two of us and ever since we started dating we always wanted to start a travel blog to document our travels together and previous ones too. We never got around to buying a domain and creating a blog/website due to (a) time, (b) fear and (c) motivation. We were slaving away in London when we lived there that our free time was time to recharge our body batteries. The fear came from the fear of writing a travel post and receiving zero reads for our efforts, yet we changed our mentality now and we're doing it (on Steemit) for us as a hobby and as a memory map. We're forever grateful for readers, it's a bonus! Lastly, the motivation was lacking, which stems from the first two points. Now, we are motivated to write for ourselves and others to read, but we would be lying if we said it's not about the money. The rewards are great, even if it's half a $, it's better than nothing. You never know what STEEM might be like in the future!

On the beach in Krabi

Cheers from the Heineken Experience in Amsterdam

We hope you enjoyed reading our post about the story behind our Steemit name. It's pretty simple, but we hope the story gave you a better sense of who we are!

Stay Classy Steemians!

Random Monday’s is a post written by the Hive account@travelling-two every Monday to keep their blog spontaneous and to not focus solely on travel, food, nature and their other passions.

Thank you for taking the time to read our post. If you really like our content, please follow us as we post regularly with different topics from Monday to Friday (with some exceptions at the weekends). How about your followers? Would they like this post? If so, please resteem it! Finally, if you are generous, please give us an Upvote! We thank you in advance! Lots of love / Hive account@travelling-two