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A Luxurious Road Trip Through California's Wine Country

Pinching pennies, sleeping in cramped hostels beneath unfriendly skies, eating street food out of the back of trucks, making your own fire out of fallen driftwood… There are times when opulent pampering and unadulterated luxury fails to enhance your experience. First stop: Carmel-by-the-Sea, a small, sophisticated town of Danish gingerbread houses, French country estates, cobblestone streets, English cottages and Swiss chalets — a European-inspired storybook town of just less than 4,000 people,