Waves and wine; Trip of a lifetime; Santa Barbara, Santa Ynez Valley, Big Sur: a Central Coast road trip makes a vintage romantic getaway.

From: Sunset | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: Jaffe, Matthew | Copyright information

Sunset at the beach: the staple of personal ads, romance novels, and Playmate turn-ons. Thee and me and we. The biggest of all California cliches. But trust me--as sunsets go, this is an epic, a masterpiece. As if van Gogh had decided to work in Cinerama.

We're at Oso Flaco Lake, on California's Central Coast. My wife, Becky, has never been to this spot, so I wanted to show her the lake and, beyond it, a beach with churning, restless surf.

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