Descriptive terminology for camino author

[MKalcolm M]

While I first walked the camino, I made up stories about it to tell to my eight year old daughter when I got home. More recently we walked together and took turns at making up a story as we walked, this lead to a lot of laughs, but also disagreements as to possible outcomes and alternative variations within the story.

When asked if I considered myself as a camino author, I would have said "No, I'm a wandering wordsmith", but musing on this made me wonder if "academic ambulator" was more apt. My daughter would call me a "pedantic pedestrian" or a "hairsplitting hiker", which lacks the dignity of "scholastic stroller" or the detail of "particular perambulator".

So what is the best description of someone who walks the camino, making up stories as they go?

 

[SYates]

Fabulating Fellow?

Buen Camino, SY

 

[Theatregal]

Wayfaring Word Slinger

 

[SabsP]

What a lovely thread this is! Wonderful descriptions. I'm a bit limited in my English vocabulary but I can recognise creativity and talent.

 

[Antonius Vaessen]

Talen Telling Toddler?

 

[Antonius Vaessen]

I meant of course Tale Telling Toddler

 

[Purky]

Mind tripper, mobile imaginatarian, dream walker, sojourner of yarns, parading parablist or just nomadic novelist.

 

[Mike Savage]

I will let you supply the adjective but the word that comes to mind for me is Bard. Especially being from Scotland.

 

[SYates]

I take the Bard Bait -

beautiful bard
boisterous bard
belligerent bard

Take your pick ;-) BC SY

 

[MKalcolm M]

At the risk of impropriety, I'm afraid the locals here would say "bollocks bard".

 

[Purple Backpack]

Sauntering Storyteller?

 

[Dana Pickett]

Roads Scholar!

 

[Waka]

Camino raconteur.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I will let you supply the adjective but the word that comes to mind for me is Bard. Especially being from Scotland.

Being from the USA I'll have to look that word up. Right now it has me totally confused as I've not heard of it before.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

At the risk of impropriety, I'm afraid the locals here would say "bollocks bard".

?? Guess I need to look this up, especially when you added the possibility of impropriety.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

?? Guess I need to look this up, especially when you added the possibility of impropriety.

Looked it up. I assume you mean nonsensical prose...not testicles!

 

[Terrri]

When you said your stories lead to laughter my first thought was "Camino Comedian."

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Camino raconteur.

Or, expanding upon @Waka, in the general case (i.e., when not in Spain): rambling raconteur

 

[Kiwi-family]

Could you simply be a peripatetic? Or use it as an adjective with pedestrian or perambulator if you need some alliteration, but the nouns would be a bit redundant!

 

[Purple Backpack]

Could you simply be a peripatetic? Or use it as an adjective with pedestrian or perambulator if you need some alliteration, but the nouns would be a bit redundant!

What a great word! Had to look it up but wonderful!

 

[nycwalking]

Blistering rambler.

 

[David]

Fonts to fonts?
Trails and Tales?
Memories Collector?
Backpack Bard?
Dreaming for Daughter?
Camino Calligraphist?

 

[Purky]

Troubadour.

 

[Kitsambler]

Pen-wielding pilgrim

 

[Mike Savage]

Troubadour.

Another great word!

 

[Kiwi-family]

ah yes
Trail Tales by Troubadour