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 [...]

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 [...]