San Diego's Weekend Driver

I was back on the Central Coast in February giving some exercise to a new car that I actually purchased, my Mini Cooper S Countryman, which regular readers of this website will remember that I ordered in December and received in February.

It’s part one of wandering around the Santa Ynez Mountains in California’s Central Coast, from Ventura and Gorman to Paseo Robles.

High-tech electric car takes an off-the-beaten path drive around Balboa Park.

Visit Font’s Point in the Anza Borrego Desert State Park, near San Diego, in a 2013 V6 AWD Chevrolet Equinox.

I’m out in the Anza Borrego Desert State Park this weekend to test a Chevy Equinox awd on a few sandy roads. Headed to Fonts Point, a beautiful overlook in the Borrego Badlands. Shouldn’t be much of a challenge for the equinox, which was a pretty good performer on the mountain roads between the desert [...]

In a region that has some of the most challenging and beautiful highways anywhere, the roads in and around Jamul have to rank near the top of the list.

Wandering around mountain roads on a beautiful Saturday lead to a big surprise on the west side of Mount Laguna, a beautiful back road that was suitable for a trio in a Volvo S40.

Check out a great travel story from Sunday’s Los Angeles Times on towns with patriotic names way up in northern Maine.

I’ve been hearing about the Feather River Canyon my entire life. When I finally visited, I found it to be everything advertised… and shockingly quiet in the middle of the summer.

Drive through the heart of San Diego on some of its most famous avenues, from Imperial to Euclid to Adams.