It is now Saturday and we have been here for four days. Not a huge amount of action yet - but lovely just the same. On Thursday we took PT (cruiser) for a pootle. We decided to drive up the coast road past Malibu. Then we turned off down Mullholland Drive, having missed the only garage we had passed. The road up the mountains was really gorgeous and almost completely deserted. Then we discovered we were getting low on gas! And lower. And lower! We eventually asked some young lads who were fixing their car. They tried to send us back the way we had come, which wasn't encouraging - but then said 15 minutes up the other way.
We stopped at a house selling huge hand carved totem poles and other wooden sculptures. When we found the owner/artist (also fixing his car), he said about six miles. With lights flashing and bells ringing, we limped into a garage - thank heavens!