We thought about it for a long time. And the longer we have to wait for our
Grenadier, the stranger the ideas became. We went through animal names, country names, comic book characters, war heroes. And
Oxford and
Cambridge were already the protagonists of another story. In the end, we got stuck in the category of adventurers and explorers.
Captain Cook was on the agenda, but since it's not a boat or a ship, we dropped the sailors for the time being. David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley came into focus, the one in search of the sources of the Nile, the other in search of the man who sought the source of the Nile. We put them back into history. And because the delivery date of our
Grenadier was receding further and further into the distance, like an unexplored island in the middle of the ocean, we were back at sea. We remembered the name of a French circumnavigator, the first French circumnavigator:
Louis Antoine de Bougainville.
However, our
Grenadier is still not a boat, ship or aircraft carrier and the name
Louis Antoine de Bougainville is so long that we need a complete vehicle length for it. So we agreed - it was already late in the evening - to call him
Bougainville Overland, to make it clear that we would not be travelling by boat, ship or aircraft carrier - and certainly not by submarine. But - we found -
Bougainville Overland is also quite long and so we found the solution: Officially he will be called
Bougainville Overland, but we will call him
Bougy Overland.
Admittedly, this now sounds like the song Boogie Wonderland by Earth, Wind and Fire from 1979, but it seemed fitting to us because we want to be out and about on the earth, let the wind blow away around our noses and certainly want to visit volcanoes (fire). A few shots and beers later, it was decided: Our Grendier will be called
Bougy Overland. We will let him know when he is finally here... If he wishes, close friends may call him
Bougy, succinctly but affectionately.
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