Out & About
This spectacular hike showcases San Diego’s skyline, Coronado, and the bay.
A lofty perch offers impressive views of San Pasqual Valley clear to the ocean
The Aero Club on India Street offers 600 whiskeys and 1 apple-pie moonshine.
Explore an urban canyon with a riparian area and over 100 palm trees.
My head was pounding. Fireworks crackled overhead. Hordes jeered, screamed, waved and then broke into joyous whirls of samba. The smell was unbearable, an open sewer ran beside our Sambódromo warm-up lane, and yet thousands …
Guidebook author Jerry Schad’s favorite Balboa Park trail and an opportunity to volunteer service.
Earlier this year I took my dog to a Pet Network Clinic for his rabies vaccine, which cost $6! The staff was efficient and professional. In case you need flea medication, DA2LPP or feline leukemia …
On any given day, the main route up Cowles Mountain, the highest point in the city of San Diego, is busy. A route with less traffic and easy parking is the Mesa Trail route that …
I’ve been listening to the jazz pianist Dave McKenna, who died in 2008. He was a lyrical swing artist with some of Bill Evans’s melancholy, though he wasn’t as inventive as Evans and didn’t have …
There’s no room for shoulder angels at Seven Grand. They already had their share. They’re afraid of the tartan carpet and the dark wood paneling. They panic at the sight of the wall of whiskey. …
Huge sycamores and live oak trees highlight this easy walk in the canyon bottom.
I was surprised to discover that the students at Mesa Community College were better dressed than the SDSU students I came across on Tuesday afternoon. Perhaps it's because Mesa folks pay less tuition and have …
Along the Gila River built into five interconnected caves high in a canyon wall, in the 2.7-million-acre Gila National Forest and Wilderness Area, is a 700-year-old Mogollon pueblo designated as the Gila Cliff Dwellings National …
This trek is along a portion of the Pacific Crest Trail, beginning at the junction with Kitchen Creek Road. It starts on a ridgeline with expansive views of backcountry and south toward Mexico and Cameron …
There’s a “we don’t want you” vibe at Lancers, but it’s just pride.