Aviara has the dubious distinction of being the most expensive course to play in the entire San Diego area. Truly, an experience to treasure. If you don't stay there, at least go up the hill, walk around it and see what you're missing. In the San Pasual Valley, east of Escondido, architect David Rainville coaxed this sporty course into what had been acres of vineyards. You look up to the rock-studded hills so unique to San Diego's North County and beyond to fields of blissful cattle grazing.
Picturesque bridges span babbling brooks.
Rabbits dart in the rough. It's a tight layout, yet a lovely, lulling day in the country brought down to earth by a clock on the cart nagging at how long you're taking. Golf odyssey over, we passed a ranch where lots of ostrich were running free. Somehow, this exotic touch didn't seem strange at all. If you haven't been here before, know that San Diego is huge.