Weekend Driver San Diego

Legendary is a label that applies to many roads, none more than the drive we’re taking this week, the route through the Santiago and Trabuco canyons in Orange County. Generations of bikers have left the beaten track in The OC for these twisty wonders; just minutes from the nearest master-planned community, yet so rural, so [...]

A few years back I spent a several weeks working in Moorhead, Minn., and as things go in the interstate twin cities of Fargo, ND and Moorhead, my budget-priced hotel was across the Red River in Fargo. Wandering around one Sunday afternoon, I headed west to where Fargo runs out and Interstate 94 makes one [...]

  The story of the first motel, in San Luis Obispo, and how you can find what’s left of it: http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-lost-la-milestone-motel-20110702,0,1271731.story

Hog heaven on Father’s Day at the legendary Cook’s Corner roadhouse in Trabuco Canyon.

Well, I’m off to far-off Orange County in the Hyundai Genesis to map out the next Weekend Driver for the San Diego Union-Tribune. I’m hoping there won’t be too much traffic out there, even though Father’s Day will be a great day for dad to hop on the Harley and cruise some of, what I’m [...]

Fatigue is setting in and you’ve been motoring eastbound (or north-, south- or west-bound) all day on Interstate Whatever. Up ahead at Exit 134 is a major-brand motel and, even though you find the parking lot choked with Family Trucksters, the somewhat worn out desk clerk says they’ve got a room. Sure, there are a [...]

A friend’s upcoming visit to Washington, D.C. brought back memories of my six weeks there back in 2001. Yes, that 2001, it was when I was working for FEMA and was called to headquarters after the September 11 attacks. The city was pretty quiet when I got there shortly after the FAA decided that airline [...]

Nothing like a DC-3, probably built a few miles from here. Well worth a visit: Go to Lyon Air Museum

I had a great time at the San Diego Auto Museum’s annual fundraiser last night. The wonderful cars on display brought back memories of my trip to the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum in Auburn, Ind. I visited there back in 2006. Take a look.

Here’s another video from the Coast Starlight, tunnel to tunnel in the Cascades. From Feb. 9, 2011.