Article: DETAILS Sue Grafton's Santa Barbara

GETTING THERE: There are no nonstop flights to Santa Barbara, Calif., from Washington. You can connect in Los Angeles for the 45- minute flight north, but it's cheaper to look for a sale fare to one of the L.A.-area airports and then rent a car. Discounter JetBlue, for example, charges as little $99 each way from Washington Dulles to Long Beach; it adds only another half-hour to the drive, and you get a personal seatback TV and blue potato chips in the bargain. Plus, the Long Beach airport is infinitely more manageable than LAX.

WHEN TO GO: May through September is high season, but Santa Barbara is a year-round destination -- temperatures range from the mid-sixties to the seventies all ...

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