Something new... Weekend Driver GPS tours. Using the Geovative Solutions Geotours web site, Jack has taken popular Weekend Driver tours and set up guided tours for GPS devices. Download them to your GPS device and you'll be guided along the route, turn by turn, with interesting tidbits popping up along the way.

This is new technology, so after you take the drive, please drop Jack an e-mail with your impressions.

Here are the drives currently available.

• Lost Valley Road/Lake Henshaw: A loop through the Warner Springs and Lake Henshaw area, including a few miles of challenging dirt roads. This is the route of the April 5, 2008 column from the San Diego Union-Tribune.

• Old Highway 101: Drive the spectacular old coast highway from Oceanside to Torrey Pines. Why southbound? Because you're driving on the ocean side of the road for a better view.
  
  • Text format, from the San Diego Union-Tribune.
  • See where you'll go in the Beachin' 101 Cruse video.
    
    
• Old Highway 80: Take a road trip into the past from Descanso to Pine Valley.
  • Text format, from the San Diego Union-Tribune (GPS covers only the eastern section).

These are tests, so please e-mail Jack and let him know how your drive went.

See you on the road!