Welcome to Day Trippers - a series of travel guides brought to you by Sun Bum. In this series, we get a local’s perspective from some of the raddest people in action sports about their home towns - from Noosa Australia to Salt Lake City USA.

Kobe Hughes DayTrippers Guide to San Diego is exactly what you’d expect a young gun surfer’s guide to a city should be.

Full of carb recommendations, cheap spots to drink after a long day in the sun and a particular affinity for the board stores and shapers that let him do his thing. If you don’t already know who Kobe is, he was apart of our Bright Young Things Class of 2023, a local to the great land of California and a surfer who we adore. He’s always very helpful, never complaining and exactly the type of person we’d think would show us a fun time around town. So that’s what we asked him to do. Let Kobe show you the way of his hometown - beautiful, sunny San Diego and all the things that make it great.

When we say Kobe doesn’t complain we mean it because when we asked him if there was anything he didn’t like about his hometown it took him a while to actually think of something he hated. But we got it out of him in the end and it was the god damn fuel prices, which I think everyone can agree suck worldwide but especially in a place like San Diego where you need to drive everywhere. So hot tip for those travelling to San Diego - budget for extra fuel. And chuck on this playlist to make the drive more bearable as curated by the man himself.