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Article: AMERICAN RIVIERA; SANTA BARBARA SERVES UP SAND, SUN AND WINE
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- Dayton Daily News
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- October 5, 2003
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Santa Barbara trumps the commercialized and crowded Napa Valley,
hands down.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The first lesson for the naive
Midwesterner (that would be me) is this: Counties in California are
not the same size as counties in Ohio.
California counties are more like Pennsylvania - the entire state
of Pennsylvania.
I had hatched what I was sure was a brilliant plan: I would park
my wife and two teenage sons on the beach in the resort town of Santa
Barbara - `The American Riviera,' the local tourism folks like to
call it - and zip over to visit several wineries in the emerging wine-
producing region of Santa Barbara County, which I figured would be
only a stone's throw away.
Day One I ...