Weekend Driver San Diego

Mt. Laguna is more than a mile high and about an hour east of San Diego. It’s rugged yet there’s enough rolling land that trails make it great for hiking and off-roading. Are you one of the millions with all-wheel-drive SUVs that never get dirty? Try this easy route with lots of choices around the [...]

Listen in during Dave Stall’s “You Auto Know” show tonight, Sunday, Jan. 29, at 8 p.m. for some Weekend Driver talk. I’ll be calling in about 8:15 for a chat about great roads. KCBQ is at 1170 am or on the web at kcbq.com.

The latest Weekend Driver column is in print today and online. Weekend Driver: Train stop to history is in your favorite formats. It’s a trip to the Dos Cabeza train station out in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Pick up a copy at a newsstand or enjoy online. The online version includes the directions and [...]

Be sure to pick up a copy of UT San Diego (the San Diego Union-Tribune) on Saturday for the next Weekend Driver column, Train Stop to History, in the Wheels section. It’s a great day trip out to an old railroad station in the middle of the desert, a place where folks taking the San [...]

Here’s a horrible choice… whether to take this Saturday’s brand new Weekend Driver in the UT San Diego or a classic drive from 2006? Well, that depends on a few things. Plenty of time? Head to the desert, where Saturday’s drive hits the sand, in search of the remains of an old railroad station in [...]

Well, I need to lose some weight but here I am with Dave Stall and David Davis this morning on KUSI’s Good Morning San Diego. We’re talking about this Saturday’s Weekend Driver column in the Wheels section of UT San Diego. Enjoy the video clip!

Be sure to turn into KUSI’s Good Morning San Diego on Wednesday morning, Jan. 25, about 6:40 a.m., with car guy Dave Stall. We’ll be taking a look at the new Subaru Forester and talking about my upcoming Union-Tribune column, Desert Station. It’s running Saturday in the newspaper and I’ll have a sneak peak with [...]

If you’re looking for something close-in this weekend, how about a cruise down El Cajon Boulevard, what one perhaps too-dreamy city planner once called the “Champs Elysees of San Diego.” The wide, mostly straight boulevard runs from Normal Street and Park Boulevard east to Main Street in El Cajon, with a bit of an interruption [...]

Here’s a golden oldie… the fourth Weekend Driver column ever, from way back in 2001, with an update in 2003. It’s Valley of Contrasts, the Tijuana River Estuary. It’s also one of the few chapters from my book, Weekend Driver San Diego, that have been posted online. It was a tease, if you will, to [...]

It’s winter and that means it’s time for a visit to the desert. Here’s a great drive I took a couple of years back in the then-new Cadillac SRX crossover. It’s not peak flower season yet, but I did see a few blooming a few weeks back when I took the Mercedes ML350 (an SRX [...]