San Diego's Weekend Driver

Drive through the heart of San Diego on some of its most famous avenues, from Imperial to Euclid to Adams.

Today we’re in search of lakes — north, south and east. I assume you can find the big lake to the west. For a region known for its beaches, San Diego county has too many lakes to count. The City of San Diego alone operates 10 lakes, reservoirs for our drinking water; water districts generally [...]

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 [...]

Ford’s Commemorative Pony Car on Hills Steve McQueen Would Have Loved Originally published in October 2008 Go back a century and a new community, Mission Hills, sprouts north of downtown San Diego. Automobiles are The Next Big Thing and early adopters — just the kind of upscale clientele building homes in Mission Hills — were [...]

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, [...]

Development Opens Area West of Peñasquitos From June 2007 New developments are a double-edged sword for the driving enthusiast. As much as we might dislike homes — even if they sell for more than $1 million — taking over what was once grazing land, the new developments also open up some beautiful vistas and create [...]

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 [...]

The late ’60s and early ’70s were a great time to be a kid in San Diego if you — and your parents — liked taking Sunday drives to see all the new stuff being built. Whether it was a new freeway, home development or stadium, we’d pile into the Pontiac to go take a [...]

Nearby East County Hills Offer A Great Cruise Route Admit it… that sports car, collector car, sports bike, or Harley hasn’t been on the road for awhile. The excuses for why its tires are beginning to develop flat spots and the paint has a coating of dust are the same as always… too busy, too [...]

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 [...]