Take it with me or????

[23109VC]

TAKE YOUR CAR TO SAN DIEGO!!!

You CANNOT live in San Diego and NOT have a car!

I was born in San Diego
I went to college in San Diego (UCSD)
I went to grad school in San Diego (USD)
I now live in Temecula, 40 min north of San Diego - some consider it a San Diego "suburb"..so many San Diegans moved up there...
I am in San Diego every other weekend as I have countless relatives and friends still living there.

Where are you going to school? UCSD, USD, SDSU, downtown, somewhere else?

If you have your boxster you can:

Take a cruise along the coast from La Jolla through Torrey Pines, all the way to Carlsbad on the PCH! Beautiful. Stop off for the views and lunch anywhere...

Take a drive from San Diego out through Ramona/Poway to Julian for apple picking season - homemade pie, bread, etc etc etc. The roads to Julian are like a nonstop autocross course..

Take a drive to Palomar - anothe set of roads that are frequented by car clubs and motorcyclists..

Head slightly north to Temecula and take the backroads all the way to Palm Springs - the "Palms to Pines" freeways is a roller coaster ride - and when you get to your destination - Palm Desert - you stop off at the Riverwalk mall where you have your choice of Cheesecake factory, teh Yardhouse, Flemings Steakhouse, PFChangs, Babes Ribs, etc - oh they have starbucks, winetasting, and Cohiba cigar lounge - I could spend the whole WEEKEND at this place..

i could keep going on ...

take the car man! besides, you know you're going to hook up with some hot chicks at school - and you need to have a cool top down car to take them with. If I was going back to college (that actually sounds like fun!) I'd want the box - it certainly won't hurt you with the ladies. and that's half of what college was about..... at least it should be.....

and if for no other reason - life is short. enjoy it. if you still like your car, don't get rid of it because of some practicality issue. i mean, if y ou have to get rid of it due to a financial hardship or some other life changing event - then you do what you have to do. but if you are going to swap it for a Z3.... blech..... keep the boxster.

when you get down here look me up. we'll take one of those drives!

[70Sixter]

23109VC, you really put goosebumps on my arms. Those were some of my favorite routes. The last time I really hung the 914's tail way out was on the way up Mt Palomar.

Man, I'd forgotten about Julian. I hope it still the quaint lil spot it was in my day.

Now that you tickled my memory I'd add taking the bridge to Coronado and then down the Silver Strand stopping for the expensive-but-worth-it date impressing Sunday brunch at the Hotel Del and then on southward past the Amphib Base back to the mainland.

Blinkwatt, let 23109 be your spiritual adviser!

[Brucelee]

If I was downtown and a student I would probably just have a bike. SD is a wondeful place to ride a motorcycle. They are cheap to buy, cheap to run.

Nothing like tooling up the Coast highway on a bike.

If you get a nice second hand bike, no one will bother it. Of course, you need a secure lock and a nice strong sign or tree.

Think about it.

[blinkwatt]

That is not an option for me. I spend countless hours on my physique. The probability of my body being damaged permanently are a lot higher in a motorcycle compared to a car.

Thanks for the thought though.