Weekend Driver San Diego

John Daley is an unapologetic booster for U.S. 101. “It’s one of the three great highways in the world,” he’s happy to tell visitors to his 101 Cafe, a 1920s diner at the corner of Coast Highway and Wisconsin Avenue in Oceanside. Current maps don’t show U.S. 101 in San Diego County; in fact the [...]

A route with twisting roads, spectacular views, history around every turn, fancy homes, great restaurants and shops, plus tons of local color has got to be out in the back country somewhere.

Perhaps no place on earth better illustrates two meanings of the word “bluff.” Physically, it is a bluff — a high, steep bank — on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, at the most southwesterly point of the continental United States. The peacefulness is also a bluff — a deception. On one hand, a typically [...]