Borrego Ranch started life in 1937 as the Desert Lodge and quickly became a winter playground for wealthy coast-dwellers.

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Rosie spent life in a custom ranch house in California's wine country and exercised in an airy, sunlit building on an earthen floor covered with clean hulls of rice.

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As much as I respect the programming life, to work on a ranch I realized that I was doing so much more.

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Our Nation's farm and ranch families supply many of the basic necessities of our daily life.

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And if you live in an urban area and you're worried about street crime, you've got to understand what it might be like if you grew out on a ranch and your dad had been taking you hunting all your life.

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The self-proclaimed Cowboy Capital of the World is stocked with guest ranches and real ranches, welcoming dudes (according to Merriam-Webster, "a city dweller unfamiliar with life on the range") as well as legitimate ranch hands.

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Borrego Ranch, in contrast, is like a summer love--a sweet memory, not a life-changing experience.

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