Originally Posted by CMC SanDiego

You're right the "sun tax" is high, but since this is where my job is, I'm enjoying it as much as possible. I live in east San Diego county and have some great rides on roads less travelled just a mile or two from my home (Dehesa, Alpine, Jamul areas). I work on the coast just south of Torrey Pines State Beach in La Jolla, and have some fabulous lunchtime rides into Del Mar, Solana Beach, or down into La Jolla itself (although that one has much more traffic).

The CEO of my company would come visit from Connecticut every two or three months, and when we had a chance we'd go out for a ride together and every time he'd say to me something like..."you have no idea how lucky you are to have a place like this to ride on a daily basis, there are only a handfull of places in the world with this scenery and temperate climate". I guess I was taking it for granted, but I'm trying not to do so anymore.