We leave home just after 11:00 in sunshine and have a good journey in light traffic. After a short stop for lunch at Sourton we continue past Exeter and Tiverton into the Exe Valley. A glitch with Snoopy the sat-nav has us on a detour down a single track lane for 3/4 of a mile but we're soon on the right road again and arrive at the Exe Valley campsite in Bridgetown at 15:40. We park next to Dick& Jan and get set up right next to the river. Chicken curry ...

Last week Ali handed in her notice at work, partly because the time is right but mainly so that we can scoot off in our motor home, which we call Mary*Lou, whenever the mood takes us. Lots of her workmates asked if we'll be keeping a blog so they can follow our travels so Nick has been tasked with setting it up. offexploring.com appears to fit the bill, so this is the first entry to see how it works.