San Diego's Weekend Driver

So what’s your dream drive? Cruising the coast in a hot Corvette? Well, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this column, GM was nice enough to satisfy my itch to drive a Corvette — in this case the hot new Grand Sport convertible — and so of course I had to take it down the [...]

South Bay Cruise Promises a Chance of Less Traffic, Delivers Great Views From July 2007 San Diego in the summertime. Time for a beach cruise. But where to go? That’s the challenge. Traffic from the fair and beaches can make Old Highway 101 north of Torrey Pines pretty grim. South of Torrey Pines, La Jolla, [...]

Keep this secret to yourself: on foggy, overcast days, people don’t go to the beach. That means it’s a perfect day for a drive around the beach. Just a few weeks back, Easter weekend was gray and it was perfect top-down driving weather. A light jacket, light traffic and the heater on in the Mustang [...]

Summer delight and twisting roads await around San Elijo Lagoon Is anything more Southern California than cruising the beach in a convertible? How about summertime beach traffic. That’s one of the problems when drivers decide to gas up the motorcycle, classic car or that brand-new Mustang ragtop and head west in the hot months, when [...]

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 [...]