mmm-yoso!!!, the food blog, is where you have landed via the interweb. Kirk is off to another Country, Ed(from Yuma) is in Yuma and Cathy is writing about beautiful San Diego County.
The Mister and I are still Staycationing in this beautiful County. The other day, we again drove West to a location we used to visit regularly, near UCSD, Torrey Pines Golf Course and the Pacific Ocean. I had been here in March after lunch with Dennis, who posted about the glider port in 2008 and canine cologne, who wrote a post on her blog about our visit here.
When you park at the far (North) end of the dirt parking lot then walk West, you'll see a narrow pathway.
Which you must not veer from.
Looking South, you can see the town of La Jolla in the distance and the small business just ahead.
Looking West, you can see paragliders preparing to take off.
Walking over to the covered patio, there is a small store selling paragliding equipment, t-shirts, mugs and also offering paragliding instruction/buddy courses. The other store serves soups, sandwiches, beverages and baked goods.
The Mister purchased a large coffee and a very fresh banana-chocolate chip muffin (total cost was <$4)
While we sat on the newly re-paved patio, on this beautiful cloud free day, we watched a paraglider preparing…
then taking off.
Later, we saw two other paragliders appearring to cross paths. It's so quiet and peaceful out here; a nice place for a mini vacation.
I hope your week is going well.
Cliff Hanger Cafe (858)452-9858 Link to menu 2800 Torrey Pines Scenic Drive La Jolla 92037
Torrey Pines Glider Port Website
So cool! When we went, we didn’t see any folks paragliding! Now I want to go again but with Bert and TC (perhaps squeeze in a visit to Green Acre first). The views are spectacular there!
I cringe when I have to revisit old posts of mine, but that one wasn’t too I suppose, haha. It’s a perfect place to have a packed bento. 😉
What a wonderful way to get a great meal and then a great view of our coastline, cc. Green Acre is open 8 until 6; avoiding the noon-2 pm crowds would be easy to do.
That was a good post, Dennis…it’s funny to see how we bloggers put in the small photos and were more concerned with words compared to now making posts with just photographs and not many descriptives. Yes- bento at the glider port! I’ve only done that for the Zoo…
I can’t believe I’ve lived in SD most of my life and I have YET to come here. If i plug it into GPS, will it be easy to find? I’m worried I’ll get lost trying to find it. But the pics from your visit look amazing – the sky and ocean look so crazy beautiful blue.
https://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&oe=UTF-8&q=2800+torrey+pines+scenic+drive+92037&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x80dc06eb4d9a7235:0x9cbe865ec0d606f8,2800+Torrey+Pines+Scenic+Dr,+San+Diego,+CA+92037&gl=us&ei=R4auUaL3Fqnm0gHT8YDADw&ved=0CC0Q8gEwAA
N. Torrey Pines Road and Torrey Pines Scenic Drive is a signal light, Fay. Just keep driving on it and the paving ends but continues into a quite large (more than 100 vehicles probably parked there) dirt parking lot. I’ve attached a googleearth link. You can sort of see the small blue/white rectangle building to the left of the left curved off street. Not much else around. It was a perfectly clear day; all of my photos since September 2007 have been taken with my iPhone.