All 8 Uses

odyssey
in
Into the Wild
(Edited)

The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.
p. 22.8 *

odyssey = long, eventful journey
But there was a way to avoid such aggravation: He could simply abandon the Datsun and resume his odyssey on foot.
p. 29.1
An Odyssey of the North,
p. 44.2
"Me," says Burres, "I thought Alex had lost his mind when he told us about his 'great Alaskan odyssey,' as he called it."
p. 45.6

odyssey = long eventful journey
My friend, Wayne, wants me to stay working at the grain elevator through May and then go combining with him the entire summer, but I have my soul set entirely on my Alaskan Odyssey and hope to be on my way no later than April 15.
p. 56.6

odyssey = long, eventful journey
And like McCandless, upon embarking on his terminal odyssey, Ruess adopted a new name or, rather, a series of new names.
p. 93.2

odyssey = long eventful journey
On April 15, 1992, Chris McCandless departed Carthage, South Dakota, in the cab of a Mack truck hauling a load of sunflower seeds: His "great Alaskan odyssey" was under way.
p. 157.9

odyssey = long, eventful journey
Others have posited that an unresolved Oedipal conflict was at the root of his fatal odyssey.
p. 184.8

Definitions:

(1) (odyssey as in: her odyssey from Mexico to Texas)
long eventful journey
(2) (The Odyssey as in: Homer's Odyssey)
epic poem (attributed to Homer) of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC)
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, Odyssey is used as a name of many things because of the importance of the poem in Western culture.