We collected the RV yesterday, returned the Escalade, transferred the house contents into the RV, handed the house keys over, and set off.

Simon was (possibly rightly) tense about driving the RV for the first time and to make matters worse, it was rush hour in Silicon Valley and got dark about an hour before we made it to the first campground in Big Sur – called Riverside Campground.  See the images from this morning – our first morning in the RV…

We set off at just after 10am on the big 270+ mile journey down to Malibu.  We stopped off to watch some seals playing in the surf and to grab a little lunch…

Then completed our journey down to Malibu with another stop @ Santa Barbara to re-fuel and to stock up on food for dinner.  The RV was had just over 1/4 of a tank of fuel (takes regular unleaded) and it drank a further $190 of the 87 RON quality unleaded!!!! If we filled in the UK this would have been closer to 246UKP !!  This was for approx 340 miles…

Hopefully tomorrow will be less time in the RV and more time in the sun – although it is considerably colder down here in the South than it was up North (or in Ossett for that matter).  The boys did really well considering pretty much all daylight hours were spent in it today…

Finally, the rest of the gang are hoping to feel less sick during drive time tomorrow – less twisty roads and a more versed driver by then…

UPDATE – photos uploaded – follw us during our trip by watching the following folder