Sunday Drive to Julian CA

We took a Sunday drive to Julian, CA this past weekend.  Rasila had never been there, so it seemed like a good trip.  I used to live in San Diego and have made many trips, but recently my neighbors had visited and we decided to join them there for lunch.

I wanted to drive some streches of highway I had not before.  One was CA-74 from San Juan Capistrano to Lake Elsinore.  So we drove I-405 south to I-5 south to the CA-74 exit in San Juan Capistrano.  From there going east, it is only a few miles before you are in open country.  This is about 30 miles from our house.  The drive is popular with sports cars and motorcycles.  We saw only 2 pass us, but many more coming the other direction.  There are 2 places they like to stop:  Hell's Kitchen, at the top of the mountain and The Lookout, overlooking Lake Elsinore.

From Lake Elsinore, we drove I-15 south to CA-79 south in Temecula.  CA-79 goes all the way to Julian, but there is a stretch from CA-371 to San Diego County 22 that I had never driven.  It takes you by Warner Springs glider airport, which looks like fun.

In Julian, we ate at the Julian Grill, where the special was the Chicken Pot Pie, which was great!  We were early, so we hit the used bookstore next door and picked up some books to read while we waited for our friends.

We took CA-78 to I-5 north home.  We did stop by Dudley's Bakery and get some apple nut bread for breakfasts.  CA-78 is tough to follow through Escodido as it requires many turns to stay on it.  It does go right by the San Diego Wild Animal Park, which Rasila has never visited either, so we'll have to go there sometime.

I forgot to mention that we, of course, had a piece of Boysenberry-Apple pie at the Julian Pie Company.