Weekend Driver San Diego

Here’s a great drive for this weekend: Canyon Sin Nombre in the Anza Borrego Desert State park. Exersise your SUV and see some flowers. And don’t forget to get your GPS tour at http://www.geovative.com/GeoTours/tourView.asp?6174Vq=JHJE

It’s only about four miles from off what might be the loneliest highway in San Diego County, highway S-2, but it sends visitors back almost a century. Out in the middle of the desert, at the south end of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, is a reminder of just how far transportation has come since [...]

The lost city of Petra, Jordan, is a long way from San Diego. This faraway place, where the final scenes of the 1989 movie “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” were shot, came to mind in a trip to Split Mountain, in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. The spectacular Petra gorge, where Indiana, his father [...]

The latest Weekend Driver column is in print today and online. Weekend Driver: Train stop to history is in your favorite formats. It’s a trip to the Dos Cabeza train station out in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Pick up a copy at a newsstand or enjoy online. The online version includes the directions and [...]

Be sure to pick up a copy of UT San Diego (the San Diego Union-Tribune) on Saturday for the next Weekend Driver column, Train Stop to History, in the Wheels section. It’s a great day trip out to an old railroad station in the middle of the desert, a place where folks taking the San [...]

Be sure to turn into KUSI’s Good Morning San Diego on Wednesday morning, Jan. 25, about 6:40 a.m., with car guy Dave Stall. We’ll be taking a look at the new Subaru Forester and talking about my upcoming Union-Tribune column, Desert Station. It’s running Saturday in the newspaper and I’ll have a sneak peak with [...]