San Diego to Oceanside WITHOUT COASTER? (or Amtrak)

-1 minute transfer? I have somehow made -1 hour transfers (with the help of time zones) hah. I like the new metro line a lot. Thanks!

1. Bro I’ll just get you a pronto card next time you’re here. they’re like 2 dollars. 2. A marginally shorter route would be using the UC Central Campus station (instead of Nobel or UTC) and wouldn’t get you soaked. 3. That bar across from Mission Viejo has food.

Believe it or not, back in about 1984, my dad and I actually had to make this trip via local bus a couple of times (our doctors were in the northern part of the county then), and it was probably about 3 hours each direction, though that was at a time when some of the bus routes themselves were considerably longer than they have now, so we only had to transfer once, twice at the absolute most. From Downtown San Diego, we took the 34, which at the time, went from downtown all the way to La Jolla, and then from there, we got up the coast on NCTD route 301 (which is now route 101, no doubt named after the historic U.S. highway it mainly travels). One time, we used the 5 (which now follows the 105 routing) from UTC to Downtown San Diego. From Downtown San Diego to Escondido, it was not nearly as bad, timewise, though to get to Vista, where my doctor was at the time, we had to use 3 buses, the #20 from downtown to a stop on Pomerado Rd. between Rancho Bernardo and Escondido, and then two NCTD routes, one from Pomerado Rd. to Escondido and a second from Escondido to Vista, following roughly a similar route now used by the NCTD Sprinter. That's a major reason why I feel that there needs to be a rail route connecting San Diego and Escondido (and eventually Riverside and San Bernardino, which would make a Metrolink line from Riverside to Escondido a possibility, thus making Riverside and San Bernardino major transit hubs in the Inland Empire).

Love the maps, great graphics work! But i thought they say it never rains in southern California

I personally would’ve gotten the express bus to Escondido and the sprinter if this happened to me

Well, I don't think it was the point, but now I want a burrito.

very impressive time travel transfer!

I saw you on the Metrolink-San Bernardino line today. You are wearing sunglasses with your bike, while holding a book and writing some college coursework 😂

The Breeze 101 is great‼️

Could have also taken the 235 bus then the sprinter, but the sprinter seems super slow. Once it's fully double tracked they say it'll be faster

btw escape brewery at Laguna niguel/mission viejo station is a cool pub

Creep factor 😅