Transcript of “Boondocking, Crackerdocking, Wallydocking”
Another term you’ll hear among RV enthusiasts is the term boondocking. I think you and I have talked about that before, haven’t we?
grant Yeah, is am I remembering that that is when you are far away from home and finding places to hook up your RV and kind of stay a while?
Yeah, well it’s when you’re camping off grid in an RV. So you don’t have a hookup to water, power, or sewer.
And there’s also, in addition to boondocking, that docking suffix has been applied to the situation where you’re camping in a parking lot, like you’re Wally docking or you’re Cracker docking.
Oh, so Cracker Barrel or Walmart parking lots.
Exactly. Exactly.
And of course, we know the history of boondocks comes from the word mountains in the Tagalog language. So it means far away kind of at its base.
Exactly.
Yeah, boondock from Tagalog.
So it was brought over here by U.S. military.
And it’s just fascinating, I think, that that term has traveled so far.
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