Weekend Driver San Diego

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 [...]

Here’s an extended version of the newest Weekend Driver column from the San Diego Union-Tribune, There’s Always a Dirt Road Somewhere. Back in February, a new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee was parked out front, there was only the weekend to do a drive and the mountains were having a near-blizzard. Where to go for some [...]

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.

Here’s a blog entry from my Starlight 2011 trip that I forgot to post. Enjoy. Thursday, Feb. 10, Seattle I awoke in Seattle on Feb. 10 to a spectacularly clear day. One of those where the locals run to the Space Needle for lunch, where I was headed. The waiter, before serving my entree of [...]

From my Starlight trip, a blog entry I wrote but didn’t post. Enjoy… Around Mt. Shasta, Feb. 10 After a decent night’s sleep, those of us on the Coast Starlight today awoke to blue skies as we looped around Mt. Shasta. The big rock is covered with snow and glistened in the morning sun. I [...]

It’s hard to believe, but even in San Diego the weather can interfere with the best plans. With a 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee parked out front and a weekend plan to head up Nate Harrison Grade on Mount Palomar (and a Plan B to do some driving on rocks near Jacumba), our local dirt roads [...]