First, it’s called a ‘coach’, which is why I call it a ‘rig’, ‘rv’, ‘motor home’……  Ensures the wonderful folks at the RV dealership know I’m a newbie.  We started serious RV learning on Tuesday, 6/16 at the dealership and shifted to ‘on the job’ training Friday, 6/19, early morning, leaving for the Nevada line to take on ownership.   The two days at the dealership entailed learning how the inside works, how the outside works, the details of how to drive it, including the 3 types of brakes.  (Hope there are only 3 types – cause right now that’s all I remember.) And we did driving training.  Steve did parking lots, back roads and highways;  I opted to practice in the parking lot, e.g., turns, backing up, avoiding overhead tree limbs….We managed to get ourselves and rig safely to a campground in Las Vegas on Friday.  Why Las Vegas with its 110+ degree weather?  It’s the closet location to where we did title exchange at CA/Nevada line and the campground provides the various hook-ups, is easy on/off the highway and good location for newbies and a shakedown cruise.   We will leave here Monday morning to head to Santa Barbara, CA campground, located in the hills and not too far from ocean.

So many firsts this past two days – first time hooking our car up to back of rig, first time driving it on our own, first meal in the RV, first night sleeping in the RV.   We still have much to do to get things settled and are learning much via trial and error method.  The dealership folks are available and we haven’t run into a situation yet where we’ve needed to turn to them.  No doubt we will turn to them in near future.

A few pictures of the inside of the RV;  too hot to take outside pictures!  Stay tuned for outside and other pictures….