People Have Themselves an RV

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I’m Grant Barrett.

And I’m Martha Barnette.

And Grant, sometimes I dream of just getting an RV and hitting the road, you know, just spending a year or two visiting national parks and just driving around. One of those big recreational vehicles with all the amenities inside. It’s your home away from home.

You’re kind of like a human tortoise.

Yeah, exactly.

Do you ever have any desire to do that?

100% of the time.

Okay.

Always, but it’s so impractical when you have a digital lifestyle.

Well, that’s, yeah, that’s a good point.

But, you know, if you and I were to do that, we’d have to bone up on some of the slang that RV enthusiasts use, like stinky, slinky, pups, and gassers. Stinky, slinky, pups, P-U-P-S, and gassers.

Yeah, these are three different things. It’s not stinky, slinky, pups.

Roll these out for us, Martha.

Okay.

Well, a stinky slinky is a very common term that refers to the sewer hose of your RV.

Oh, okay.

Gotcha.

You have to maintain that. And a gasser is a motorhome powered by gasoline. You know, one of those that you drive. As opposed to, what, diesel or a trailer that’s pulled behind another vehicle?

Yeah, I think so.

And then a pup. A pup is actually an acronym for pop-up camper.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, I’ve heard that one before.

Yeah.

That’s cool.

I bet there’s just pages and pages of this stuff.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I would love to hear from folks who have done this or are doing it right now.

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