Travel Fact

The first California Welcome Center to greet tourists with self-serve wine tasting machines isn't in the vineyard gateway cities of Salinas or Pismo Beach.  t's in Oxnard.  When it opens to the public Friday at its new location in The Collection at River Park, the center operated by the Oxnard Convention & Visitors Bureau will offer visitors one-stop shopping for tickets to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, souvenir dish towels printed with strawberries, and free pamphlets for attractions from San Francisco to San Diego.