If there were a single spot in all of Lake County where the past and the future come rushing together, it would probably be one short stretch of twisty Highway 29.
Calistoga is in the rearview mirror, so close that it is almost possible to hear corks pop and crystal clink. Up ahead, the oaks part to reveal a small jewel of a hillside vineyard. A few more curves and the Lazy S Mobile Ranch looms.
There they are, wine grapes and double-wides, the unofficial symbols of a region in transition, the hallmarks of a blue-collar county struggling to be the next Napa Valley, or some approximation of it.
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