For the Lansing State Journal

In wine, there is truth. The stories told by visitors gathered around a big, fireside, stone tasting table at Cambria Estate Winery, in Santa Maria, on California’s Central Coast, were stranger than fiction.

Kirstin’s mother had been a performing rodeo rider. Vanita recounted parachuting from an airplane. Nicole’s husband had climbed Yosemite’s famed 7,000-foot El Capitan vertical rockface. Katie revealed her husband is a firefighter in the “Hot Shot” brigade; while the woman next to her said she lives with a rocket scientist for Blue Origin! (Ironically, Vandenberg Space Force Base was just 24 miles from the winery, as the crow flies.)

The vintage aircraft of the Central Coast’s annual AirFest adds more skyward thrills across the dunes and beaches of the S

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