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a journey planned in spreadsheets and remembered in chaos, the best part always unscripted
means A journey from one place to another and back, especially a short one — or, as a verb, to stumble by catching your foot, or to set off a mechanism.
from From the Old French 'triper,' to hop, leap, or strike with the foot — the same skipping-dance energy you hear in 'trippingly.' For centuries 'trip' meant a light, nimble step, which is why you can still 'trip the light fantastic.' The 'stumble' sense grew from the foot-striking idea (a misjudged step), and only later — possibly by the 14th–15th centuries — did 'trip' come to mean a short voyage, the kind of quick, light passage a nimble traveller might make. The 'psychedelic experience' sense is a much newer slang twist from the mid-20th century.
- origin
- From Old French 'tripper,' meaning to dance or hop
- two meanings
- A vacation or a stumble, both unplanned detours
- round trip
- Apollo missions logged nearly a million miles each
- power trip
- Phrase coined in 1960s drug culture, now corporate
acid test series 1966 — ken kesey's cross-country lsd journey with the merry pranksters in a psychedelic bus
apollo 13 1970 — nasa's oxygen tank explosion mission to the moon with 3 astronauts who made it back