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Half-Day Treat on Highway 94

Chocolate, old trucks and pie sweeten a classic San Diego day trip on eastern Highway 94

  • From May 2007

With San Diego County home to so many twisting roads, parts of some of the best can make for great half-day trips. Such was the case a few weeks back when daylight started to run out in the early stages of a planned east-to-west mountain crossing over state Route 94.

But it was still a great day of spirited driving, old vehicles and great eats. What else is needed?

Wanting to see what a 2007 Infiniti G35 coupe would do on some serious curves, the backcountry mountain segment of Highway

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