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The Pets Issue 68 The Cat That Healed Us

As his kids plead their case for a pet, one dad faces a tough question: Could any animal live up to the legend of Greg Almond?

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72 The Best Kind of Friend

Being alone with a dog you love is never lonely. The human bond with our canine companions is all about sharing solitude.

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CONTENTS October 2019

In Every Issue Gary’s Greeting Saludos de Gary The A-List Spotlight Community Outreach 22 Our People 26 Feedback

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80 Fun! 81 Agenda 111 Advertiser Directory 115 The Southwest Guide 128 One Question

Play 31 Settle on what to stream, sample Nikkei and Chifa cuisine, and step up your sunglass game.

Work 41 Explore St. Louis’ vibrant Delmar Loop, learn to roll with the punches, and feed your pup fresh food.

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The City You’re Missing: Salt Lake City

48 Utah’s capital offers both diverse cultural activities and plenty of outdoor adventure.

O’Connor’s Law 61 For retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, having a sense of adventure was as meaningful as learning the law.

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October 2019 EDITORIAL creative director Kevin de Miranda executive editor Mark Shimabukuro art director Desiree Espada editors Melissa Flandreau Alex Macon associate editor Kiley Faulkner designers Mariela Garcia Christine Smith Maria Williams editorial intern Lawrence Smelser contributors Steve Almond, Marc Aspinall, Kristin Blake, Paul Blow, Nick Cabrera, Vicki Croke, Tommie Ethington, Jim Gold, Page Grossman, Miles Howard, Andrew Joyce, Trevor Paulhus, Evan Thomas web development, pace interactive Jason Dalton, Craig Davis, Carolyn Eckstein EDITORIAL INQUIRIES Write to Southwest: The Magazine 4131 N. Central Expy., Suite 750, Dallas, TX 75204, or email letters@southwestmag.com. Our writer’s guidelines and editorial calendar can be found at southwestmag.com. SOUTHWEST INQUIRIES For comments or questions directed at Southwest Airlines that don’t pertain to the magazine, write to Southwest Airlines Customer Relations P.O. Box 36647, Dallas, TX 75235-1647, or visit the “Contact Us” page at Southwest.com.

ceo & owner Bonnie McElveen-Hunter chairman emeritus Eugene Johnston secretary-treasurer Patricia M. McConnell president Jason Whiting chief operating officer & chief financial officer Leigh Ann Klee vice president, production James A. DeCata senior production manager Greg Onder director of marketing Candice Thomas media analyst Samantha Absher

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WEST COAST associate publisher Hilary Myrick, 424.228.5241, hilary.myrick@paceco.com SOUTHWEST senior account manager Ellynn Adoue, 940.483.9223, ellynn.adoue@paceco.com NEVADA, SOUTHEAST, MID-ATLANTIC senior account manager Traci Pelter, 281.633.6000, traci.pelter@paceco.com MIDWEST, NEW ENGLAND Fox Associates, 800.440.0231 x116, adinfo.swt@foxrep.com NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY Diane Ciaglia, 732.360.0217, diane.ciaglia@paceco.com THE CITY YOU’RE MISSING special projects manager Marta Priestley, 310.994.4578, marta.priestley@paceco.com Some sources contacted by the writer for this feature chose to advertise in this issue. PACE COMMUNICATIONS® © 2019 Pace Communications, Inc., 1301 Carolina St., Greensboro, NC 27401. Southwest: The Magazine is published monthly by Pace Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any material in this publication without written permission of Pace Communications, Inc., is expressly prohibited. The statements, opinions, and information contained in this publication are those of the individual authors, contributors, and advertisers and not of Pace Communications, Inc. or Southwest Airlines Co. Pace Communications, Inc. and Southwest Airlines Co. each disclaim any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, topicality, or quality of any statements, opinions, or information provided. The appearance of advertisements in Southwest: The Magazine is not a warranty, endorsement, or approval of the products or services advertised or of their effectiveness, quality, or safety. Any liability claims against any author, contributor, or advertiser in respect of damage to persons or property caused or alleged to be caused by the use of the statements, opinions, or information contained in this publication, including any statements, opinions, or information which is incorrect or incomplete, are therefore excluded.

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Gary’s Greeting

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is and has always been critically important to our success. In order to continue providing our business travelers with superior service, we’ve made some big changes to make it even easier for our Customers to travel on their favorite airline for that important meeting. In August, we officially launched Southwest Business, which is focused on bringing a new suite of services and travel solutions to corporate travel managers and business travelers across the country. We expanded our Account Management Team, introduced a new

Business-to-Business Partner desk (for qualified accounts), and deployed a refreshed SWABIZ® booking tool that makes it easier for business travelers to choose Southwest for their corporate travel needs. Southwest Business will become industry standard through our partnerships with Travelport and Amadeus and participation within their global distribution systems. Through this GDS participation, corporate travel managers will have the ability to book, change, and cancel reservations. We anticipate our GDS partnerships will be operational by mid-2020. Behind this galvanized effort, our 59,000-plus Employees are focused on bringing more Heart and Hospitality to the thousands of businesses that trust us to connect their people to the places that are important to them. Of course, many of our loyal business travelers rack up Rapid Rewards® points and redeem them for much-needed vacations. So, whether you’re traveling for business or fun, thank you for allowing us to serve you today!

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personales, pero los viajes de negocios son y siempre han sido importantes para nuestro éxito. Para continuar ofreciendo a nuestros viajeros de negocios con servicio superior, hemos hecho cambios importantes para hacerles aún más fácil viajar en su aerolínea favorita para llegar a esa importante reunión de negocios. En agosto, lanzamos oficialmente Southwest Business, que ofrece un nuevo conjunto de servicios y soluciones de viaje para gerentes de viajes corporativos y viajeros de negocios a lo largo del país. Expandimos nuestro Equipo de Administración de Cuentas, introdujimos una nueva recepción de

Aliados Business-to-Business (para las cuentas cualificadas) e implementamos una herramienta de reserva renovada, de SWABIZ®, que facilita a los viajeros de negocios a elegir Southwest para sus necesidades de viajes de negocios. Southwest Business se convertirá en el estándar de la industria a través de nuestras asociaciones con Travelport y Amadeus y la participación dentro de sus sistemas globales de distribución. A través esta participación en sistemas globales de distribución, los gerentes de viajes corporativos podrán reservar, cambiar y cancelar sus reservas. Esperamos que nuestras alianzas en estos sistemas estén operando para mediados del 2020. Detrás este esfuerzo, están nuestros más de 59,000 Empleados, quienes se concentran en ofrecer Corazón y Hospitalidad a miles de empresas que confían en nosotros para conectar a su gente con los lugares que son importantes para ellos. Por supuesto que muchos de nuestros viajeros de negocios más leales acumulan puntos de Rapid Rewards® y los canjean por unas merecidas vacaciones. Ya sea que viajes por negocios o por placer: ¡Gracias por permitirnos atenderte hoy!

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as good as anything they’re used to dealing with in a consumer environment. So your training requirements are less stringent. The third reason is we offer choice. Customers can choose whether they want to deploy on-premises or in the cloud. They can also choose to purchase the license on a perpetual basis or consume it on subscription. This combination of fast time-to-value, enhanced user interface, and choice around deployment and consumption provides a very flexible and easyto-use application that customers find appealing. That’s why we’ve seen the growth that we have, which is significantly higher than our peers in the ERP space. Q: What can leaders do to ensure a vendor fits their culture? A: I encourage executives

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PROFILE Rapid Progress

Darren Roos became CEO of IFS in April 2018. Before that, he was president of SAP’s global Cloud ERP.

Shared Knowledge

IFS hosts the IFS World Conference Oct. 7–10 in Boston. ifs.com/woco2019

Extensive Reach

IFS has 65 offices worldwide and more than 10,000 customers.

Major Growth

The company’s cloud and softwareas-a-service revenue increased 300 percent year over year.

Industry Praise

IFS has been rated a leader in field service management by customer review service Gartner Peer Insights.

the company that they want to deal with. If I’m meeting an executive, it’s important that there is a clear understanding of the responsibility we have to each other, because business solution projects of this nature are incredibly complex and require real partnership. Ultimately, companies will be dependent on us to run the inner workings of their business. That means for the next decade or two, they will have a relationship with us. And that relationship needs to be mutually beneficial and based on trust. Q: You’ve shared your secrets for ERP success. Can you tell us what inspires your leadership style? What’s the best leadership advice you’ve received? A: It’s not something I was

told, but something I’ve experienced repeatedly: Don’t underestimate the importance of being authentic. It seems obvious, but it’s crucial to have a trusting relationship with your staff. The reality is one person can’t have an impact at all. It is really about the collective.

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of us would consider relocating for a job. Would you move for more money? What about for more vacation time? According to a survey conducted by global staffing firm Robert Half, more than half of us would be willing to swap locations to start a new gig. For 44 percent of workers polled, a higher salary and better perks would be the deciding factor in making the jump, while 16 percent said they might pull up roots if career advancement’s on the table. The older we get, though, the less eager we are to change it up: Compared to 76 percent of professionals ages 18–34, only 40 percent of those 55 and older were up for relocating. So if you want a change of scenery, you’d better, well, get a move on.

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FUN IN THE SUN Six percent of respondents said weather would be their top consideration when relocating is a possibility.

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WORK Takeaway

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You have to learn how to take a punch, says this longtime Hollywood voice actor.

Ten years ago, I went through a slump in my career. I had won an Emmy and a Peabody, I had made a lot of money, and I had famous friends. But all of a sudden, it dried up, and I utterly mishandled the situation. I let that frustration bleed over into my personal life. But it’s unproductive to panic or lose sleep, especially in a creative field where your stock in trade is having a free, open mind. I realized I needed to pull myself up by the bootstraps and concentrate on why I made the career choice that I did. When life throws you a curveball, take personal responsibility and remember the things that bring you joy—your family or working with a grassroots charity or even golf. Whatever it is, remember what helped you out of the pit in the past.

OUT TAKES CARTOON HERO As a kid, my favorite character was Bugs [Bunny]. The animation, acting, and story writing work so perfectly together.

Paulsen chronicles his career in his upcoming memoir, Voice Lessons: How a Couple of Ninja Turtles, Pinky, and an Animaniac Saved My Life, out Oct. 8.

TURTLE POWER I met a 4-year-old with muscular dystrophy, and he was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fanatic. I did Raphael’s voice, and he’d light up. For me, it’s not about money or action figures—it’s about a personal connection.

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CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOP I've won awards, but all of that hardware has nothing to do with the future. It means I did something in the past that affected people in a positive way. I am very grateful for it, but I ain’t stopping. I don’t think I have experienced my greatest accomplishment yet.

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SHOP ↑ Return to yesteryear and dig for your favorite old records at Vintage Vinyl. Then, stick around to discover new tunes at the instore performances.

DRINK ↑ Cool off with a root beer float, shake, or malt at Fitz’s, and enjoy your treat of choice with a view of the vintage bottling line.

Known for its eclectic vibe, the Delmar Loop—just “The Loop” to locals—offers six blocks of rich cuisine and bustling nightlife, plus a revamped trolley line.

EAT ↓ At Mission Taco Joint, try the spicy chorizo tacos, topped with pineapple pico, and don’t forget the smoky mezcal margarita.

SEE ↑ Catch an indie or foreign flick at the Tivoli Theatre. Built in 1924, the spot is on the National Register of Historic Places.

SLEEP → Rest your head in one of the Walk of Fame suites at Moonrise Hotel. Each pays tribute to St. Louis celebs like Shelley Winters and Tennessee Williams.

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WORK Startup Brett Podolsky (left) and Jonathan Regev—with their dogs, Jada and Buddy—co-founded The Farmer’s Dog. Visit the farmersdog.com for more.

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Here’s how co-founder Brett Podolsky describes the company: My dog had serious stomach issues the first two years I had her. I tried every food on the market before a vet recommended I home cook for her, and when I did, her symptoms disappeared. That’s when I realized she wasn’t actually sick—the food was making her sick. Pet food is made a lot differently than it’s marketed, and the status quo is highly processed. When I couldn’t find a product I felt comfortable feeding my dog, my co-founder, Jonathan Regev, and I built The Farmer’s Dog. Our mission is to change the way people think about pet food. Our food is steamed, human-grade meat and vegetables with supplements added so it’s complete and balanced. You provide information about your dog, from breed to activity level, and we create a custom, subscription-based feeding plan with pre-portioned food. We don’t tout our food as being this magical thing, but when you compare it to what’s out there, it seems like magic.

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THE CITY YOU’RE MISSING

Salt Lake City

Both rugged and cosmopolitan, Utah’s capital combines a love of outdoor adventure with eclectic cultural offerings. BY MILES HOWARD

n the summer of 1847, a bearded man named Brigham Young looked out from the sun-bleached foothills of Salt Lake Valley to survey the territory below. The second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had arrived to the region by wagon train, entering an improbably nourishing ecosystem surrounded by harsh, but often beautiful, elements: desert, craggy peaks, and, just for the hell of it, a 240-mile fault line capable of causing landslides. This was the place, Young realized, where members of the religious community he led would build a city and begin anew.

On a sultry July evening, 172 years later, I’m sitting near those same foothills where Young first saw Salt Lake Valley. But the object of my attention isn’t the landscape: It’s the outdoor stage at Red Butte Garden, a charming botanical garden and one of Salt Lake City’s most romantic music venues. The lawn before the stage is filled with tanned concertgoers sipping wine from plastic cups, and the sun is painting us shades of burnt orange. The city’s newest visitor, who we’re all watching perform tonight, is Seal—yes, that Seal, who wrote “Kiss From a Rose.”

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Like the singer, I’ve journeyed here from far away. I suspect many of the people dancing on the lawn tonight are travelers, too. By the time the sun sinks behind the hills, Seal has removed his shirt and my glass of zinfandel has been refilled. I’ve only been in Salt Lake City for a couple of hours. And although this music, and this scene, don’t seem tailored to my usual interests, I am strangely at ease. That was my hope before coming: to feel at home in this storied city. My comfort isn’t an accident. Generations of rolling stones have traveled far and wide and found themselves here, creating a shared sense of belonging—together.

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STAY IN THE CITY

↑ Kimpton Hotel Monaco / If the central location and stylish decor don’t convince you to book a room, maybe the on-site restaurant will. Bambara, which serves New American cuisine in refined digs, is a destination in itself.

The Peery Hotel / Built in 1910, the Peery

maintains its historic appeal while embracing SLC’s modern character. Its downtown location puts ample dining and nightlife options, including the hip restaurant and cocktail lounge Whiskey Street, within walking distance.

Anniversary Inn / The themed suites at this bed and breakfast run the gamut from whimsical (“Enchanted Forest”) to romantic (“Romeo and Juliet”) to unclassifiable (“Citrus Crush”). Choose between two locations just east of downtown SLC.

all leaves me with two recommendations—for an experimental art gallery as well as a pastry purveyor called Eva’s Bakery. I make a beeline to the latter and order a black pepper and Parmesan croissant so savory and buttery that I return to the counter and order another for the road. I wander down University Boulevard, leaving a trail of flaky croissant crumbs in my wake, and within 10 minutes, I reach the Saturday farmers market at Pioneer Park. Everything you could want from a farmers market is here: crisp vegetables from regional growers, grass-fed beef jerky samples from regional livestock, a young woman playing Vivaldi on a violin, and, just for good measure, a guy pulling a red wagon full of puppies. The restaurant scene here has earned accolades from national publications and tastemakers. And people are willing to carve out the time to wait for a killer meal.

PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF HOTEL MONACO SALT LAKE CITY

he economic fuel propelling Salt Lake City has changed over the years. Agriculture, mining, banking, and software development are among the services and industries that have brought prosperity to the city. Today, SLC is adding new high-paying, high-skill jobs in bioengineering and cloud computing. (This hilly region in Utah has been nicknamed “Silicon Slopes.”) Financial services firms like Fidelity have opened offices here. And increasingly, SLC is playing host to convention business, with hotel rooms filling during gatherings at the vast and gleaming Salt Palace Convention Center downtown. I’m staying just a few steps away from the Salt Palace at the colorful Hotel Monaco, which occupies a historic building that dates back to the 1860s. Lively curtains and carpeting, chic furniture, and the towering headboard on my bed all evoke an old-school grandeur that contrasts with the sleek, silvery high-rises sprouting up across downtown. Change is also happening here on a human scale. Utah ranked among the top three fastest-growing states in the U.S. in 2018, with much of that population boom coming in the Salt Lake City area. That doesn’t mean the city has lost its underdog spirit. On my first morning in town, I meet up with Trent Call, an artist whose work adorns several of the buildings near my hotel. His most well-known creation is a gonzo mural that fashions basketball players as retro cartoon characters. The mural was commissioned by the city’s own Utah Jazz, the perennial NBA underdogs that have often had brushes with greatness and have always been supported by one of the most loyal fanbases in the country. To hear Call tell it, that loyalty, along with the bargain cost of living in SLC, has kept him rooted here since the early ’80s. “It’s always been easy to live here, with rent for a studio or house being reasonable,” Call says as we gawk up at his Jazz mural. “That’s really why I stayed. The community helps each other.” Call leads me on a walk through downtown, past the vivid artwork decorating the buildings here. On the backside of a bank, beneath layers of eroding material, I can glimpse flashes of color: ancient graffiti that was painted over and lost to history, only to re-emerge later, as Salt Lake City expands and bustles its way forward into the 21st century.

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Public transit moves happy couples and solo travelers around the city.

This is impressed upon me when I walk over to Fairpark, an arbor-filled neighborhood west of downtown. A healthy crowd is amassed outside a Mexican restaurant called the Red Iguana—an SLC institution—and everybody seems happy. It’s refreshing compared to the moodier, more passive aggressive human queues you’ll encounter outside the hottest restaurants in bigger cities. I add my name to the list and make small talk with some teenagers visiting from Denver, who recommend a hike to a place called “The Living Room.” More on that later. Once the hostess ushers me inside, I order one of the house specialties: sirloin tips sautéed with bacon, jalapeno strips, onions, and tomatoes, and served atop a mind-numbingly delicious golden almond mole. Stuffed, I catch a ride on the UTA TRAX light rail. The transportation system here is surprisingly well-developed for such a relatively small city. Among other stops, the rail connects downtown SLC to the University of Utah and Salt Lake City International Airport, which is in the midst of a major expansion, while a network of commuter trains and buses provides further access to nearby ski resorts and various hot spots. When I disembark, I find myself standing downtown before the Salt Lake Temple, a soaring house of worship in the heart of the city. Although the inside of the temple is open only to church members, this site draws visitors from near and far. The surrounding 10-acre Temple Square is the spiritual and institutional center of the 16 million member-strong Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

Saints and one of SLC’s most popular tourist destinations. For good reason: This place is impressive. The towers of the temple remind me of magic citadels from books that I devoured as a kid. While I’m at Temple Square, I decide to check out the Family History Library, which is exactly what it sounds like. The world’s largest genealogical library, run by the church, allows visitors to chart their own family history through collected public records. I sit down at a desktop computer and, before I know it, I’m digging deep into the Howard family past, discovering relatives from rural Newfoundland who might have bestowed Canadian citizenship upon me had their kids not migrated south to the American colonies. When I leave the library and step into the late afternoon haze, I’m struck by how my first engagement with the church hinged on the art of exploration—just like all my initial stops in SLC. Whether it’s an internationally inspired meal you didn’t know you’d find, or relatives you never knew you had, SLC seems to encourage a spirit of inquiry. I shouldn’t be surprised by this: SLC, after all, was born in an era of westward expansion. As I’ll soon learn, that shared sense of curiosity—and the thrill of discovery—can have a unifying effect on towns like SLC, which is more diverse than you might think.

he next morning, I wake up at sunrise, before the swelter sets in, and go for a lung-buster of a trail

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The city’s mountain views and scenic sunsets are a big attraction.

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/ These neighboring resorts benefit from abundant snowfall. Beginners are welcome, but the steep and technical terrain is better suited to more seasoned ski bums.

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run beginning at City Creek Park. The entrance is just a few steps beyond Temple Square. It’s a particularly idyllic example of how SLC makes stepping into the natural world seem effortless. After a breakfast of eggs, quinoa, and kale at Pulp Lifestyle Kitchen, I trek over to the offices of SLUG Magazine. In publication for over 30 years, SLUG, an acronym for “Salt Lake Underground,” has consistently pushed the envelope of culture in SLC, spotlighting the creators behind the city’s art, food, and music scenes. I’m here to hang out with Angela Brown, owner and executive editor of the magazine. The editorial office, which is decorated with framed posters and paintings, is full of young people typing away on desktop computers. A lumbering hound named Hondo joins Brown and me as we head downstairs to a studio where SLUG records podcasts and interviews. The magazine also organizes events like Brewstillery, Utah’s all-local gathering of craft brewers and distillers. The existence of such a boozy festival in the hometown of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints may surprise visitors, but Salt Lake City’s culture provides a bigger and more inclusive tent than many people realize, Brown says. “We have regular contributors, local bishops, who are still passionate about SLUG,” she says. “I see [us] really working on inclusivity. We want our culture to change, and we want Salt Lake City to change and grow and blossom.”

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Later that day, I hear a similar sentiment at Ken Sanders Rare Books, an enormous used bookstore whose exterior is emblazoned with a portrait of the late Utah labor activist Joe Hill and the words “Come in and remember what a book smells like.” Sanders, a gregarious fellow with a long beard, has been tracking down and selling books since his teens. “I wheeled and dealed comic books, two for a nickel, when I was in grade school,” he tells me. “Mostly as a means of funding my own collection.” Appearances on PBS’ Antiques Roadshow put Sanders on the map for many collectors, but the bookstore has long been a reliable place for SLC natives and visitors. There are young people plopped on couches leafing through ancient hardcovers. A nearby shelf features a robust collection of Edward Abbey paperbacks, along with a rusty wrench, a wry ode to The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey’s novel about an environmental saboteur. Sanders describes his bookstore as a safe space for wandering souls. As long as you’re curious enough to enter the maze

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A view of the Wasatch Range

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my destination, I stumble upon a little park called Hidden Hollow. It’s a leafy glen tucked between shopping centers, and a chuckling brook runs through it. I pick a meandering concrete path and walk alongside the brook. There are other people out tonight. Some of them are jogging. Two young parents are pushing a stroller, and one older guy is sitting on a bench, watching the water and listening to it ripple. I know what I’m doing tomorrow.

n many places, getting outside of your element requires a long journey. Not for residents of Salt Lake City. I kick off the next morning by driving just north of the city to cross the long bridge to Antelope Island State Park. Spanning 42 square miles on the Great Salt Lake’s southeastern shore, the park is home to bison, elk, and, yes, antelope. The island’s pinnacle, Frary Peak, is among the more popular natural wonders you’ll encounter here. Still adjusting to the Utah heat, I take an easier hike to Ladyfinger Point on the northern side of the island. Later, I glimpse bison grazing near the bottom of a hillside. My next stop is the Wasatch Range itself. I ascend into the mountains by taking I-80 from SLC to Park City, which involves an elevation gain of nearly 3,000 feet and puts some hair on the transmission of my rental Ford Fiesta. Park City is known for hosting the Sundance Film Festival, and it’s where much of the infrastructure for the 2002 Winter Olympics was built and remains in use. I rendezvous with Kim Brown, a creative director for a catalog company who I first met at the Seal

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of bookshelves with an open mind, you’re likely to find something worth savoring. “I’ve done some really fabulous hikes, from Australia to Utah,” Sanders tells me. “And the whole point of going on the hike—or going on the hunt for a book—is to not know what you’re seeking, and to find it.” I’d love to spend the rest of the day roaming this literary labyrinth, but travel writing duty beckons, so Sanders sends me off with a fresh copy of Charles Bowden’s Blood Orchid, an unflinching and often devastating history of man’s relationship with the natural world. I take the light rail up into SLC’s eastern foothills, to the Natural History Museum of Utah. I spend the next hour listening to descendants of Utah’s Native American tribes as they recount their hard-won struggle for tribal sovereignty in Utah and nearby states. These video testimonials are just one piece of the museum’s stunning and deeply moving Native Voices exhibition. And something of an epiphany is beginning to emerge. The land here in Salt Lake Valley has cast a sustaining spell on one generation after the next. As the sun goes down and I take a stroll through Sugar House—a bucolic residential neighborhood and home to Westminster College, Utah’s only accredited liberal arts college—I’m reminded of the humility that nature can inspire in humans. Perhaps there’s something universal about feeling tiny and wondrous in the face of mountains and desert— something that can bring people together. I’m heading to nearby Wasatch Brew Pub for a beer, but before I reach

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concert. An avid hiker, she’s the perfect person to take me up the Moose Puddle Trail, which begins right next to an active bobsledding course. As we climb through birches and wildflowers, the sound of sleds whizzing down the tracks echoes from below. Mountain bikers rumble past on the ribbon-like trail as we break through the tree line and step out onto a breezy ridge. Later, for dinner back in SLC, I’ve managed to snag a reservation at Log Haven, the mountain hideaway of a steel tycoon that’s since been refashioned into a gourmet dining oasis. To reach the restaurant, I drive deep into Millcreek Canyon, leave my car with a valet, and climb a pathway to the chic lodge. A wedding reception is taking place in the courtyard, so I’m seated in the dining room, right in front of a window facing a silvery waterfall. When my grilled bison steak with sweet potato orzo and smoky succotash arrives, it’s almost too much. Almost. A meal at a joint like Log Haven could be the capstone to a busy day. But when I stagger down the path to my car, it’s 7 o’clock, the sun is still up, and I’m

reminded of something I had been urged to do. I slide my hiking boots back on, get in the car, and set my phone’s GPS for The Living Room Trail. Located right by the University of Utah campus—not too far from the Red Butte Garden—this short, challenging trail takes visitors up to a scenic ledge on Mount Wire. There, I’m told, people have arranged stones to resemble sofas. I walk up the trail, sweating, huffing, hoping to reach the ledge before sundown. I meet students, families, and solo wanderers like myself. By the time I arrive at the overlook, I’m heartened to find that a few of the “sofas” are occupied by hikers drinking in the vista. I gaze out at SLC, a blinking grid of activity far below. It’s a very different view than the one Brigham Young saw when he took his first gander at the valley. What I see as the sun goes down is a rebuttal of the idea that the American West is a wilderness of rugged individualism. Sure, you can find that out here. But in Salt Lake City, I found a welcoming community bound together by a love of exploration and discovery. This town is a living testament to the possibilities of human collaboration. All you have to do is go west. Or east, depending. Whatever. My point is that once you’re in SLC, you’re in. Miles Howard is a freelance writer living in Boston. Email him at mileswhoward@gmail.com.

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hen Sandra Day O’Connor graduated near the top of her class from Stanford Law School in 1952, she called at least 40 law firms looking for a job. Only one would even give her an interview. The partner asked, “How well do you type?” She said she didn’t want to be a legal secretary. O’Connor went on to have astonishing success in the law and became the first ever woman on the U.S. Supreme Court (appointed by President Reagan in 1981). Today, at a time when half of all law students are women, her achievement is perhaps easy to take for granted. Justice O’Connor, who is 89 years old and suffering from dementia, is not as well-known as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who joined the Court in 1993, 12 years after O’Connor, october 2019 Southwest 61

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Channel; another had been an undercover CIA agent). O’Connor believed that people were not just happier but more productive if they made themselves get out of the office and experience the wider world. Raised in the harsh and demanding world of a cattle ranch in the Arizona high desert, O’Connor was a no-excuses boss. She was not easy with

“We were getting not just an apprenticeship in law but an apprenticeship in life.” the compliments. One year, some clerks took a photocopy of her hand and taped it on the wall of their office under a sign that said, “If you want a pat on the back, lean here.” But the clerks also understood how much she cared about them as people, and that they were receiving more than

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but she was a trailblazer in her own way. O’Connor did not use the word “feminist,” and she was not an activist for women’s rights, yet she played a huge role advancing them. She knew what it was to be a role model for women and would say, “It’s good to be first, but you don’t want to be the last.” In public, O’Connor came across as a combination of tough cowgirl and country-club Republican—smart and stylish when she was a younger woman, and then a little matronly, but always with flashing, almost piercing eyes. She could be at once intimidating and warm. During her 25 years on the Supreme Court, and for many years after her retirement in 2006, she acted as both mentor and model to scores of women, especially her law clerks. About half of O’Connor’s hundred-odd law clerks were women. Supreme Court law clerks not only research but also help write a justice’s opinions; they usually are the top grads from the best schools. O’Connor chose hers not just for their brains, which were a given, but for their personalities and varied life experiences (one had swum the English 62 Southwest october 2019

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legal training in her chambers. “She was actually modeling a balanced life,” says Lisa Kern Griffin, who worked for O’Connor in 1997 and ’98. “Make time for your family. Take care of yourself. Experience the outdoors and get some exercise. Have a sense of the wider culture. Enjoy lively dinner parties and a varied circle of friends. Never be above taking care of people. It was really unusual. We were getting not just an apprenticeship in law but an apprenticeship in life.” O’Connor herself was probably the most social Supreme Court justice in history (a low bar, admittedly; most justices live cloistered lives). She went out often in the evening to dances and parties, concerts, and shows. She was also almost certainly the most traveled justice ever. In 1997, O’Connor achieved her goal of speaking in every state (the last was West Virginia). In part, she was practicing what she preached: Women achieved power, she believed, by

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She embraced the dance of balancing work and play.

putting themselves out there, by being visible and accomplished. Travel, at home and abroad, broadened her horizons in ways that affected her judging, making her sensitive to different outlooks while deepening her appreciation for the rule of law. She also went for the joy of experience. A lifelong sportswoman,

she was a low-handicap golfer and expert skier. She was an avid, if somewhat impatient, fly-fisher and bird-watcher. On her trips, she could often be found in waders or on a horse. On one fishing trip to Alaska, she fended off a grizzly with a can of bear spray. As a girl, Sandra Day spent hours poring over old National

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Geographic magazines. It filled her with a wanderlust that took her to China and India, to Argentina, Africa, and the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand, and all over Europe—again and again. Her capacity to race across time zones was jaw-dropping. She once interrupted a legal gathering in London to fly to Tokyo and back—18 hours in the air, each way, over one weekend—to fulfill a promise to address a women’s conference. “It is not a pleasing prospect,” she wrote in her journal (underlining “not”), “but I cannot disappoint the Japanese women who are counting on me and who are trying to attain better opportunities in the work force.” She did all this traveling while serving as a Supreme Court justice. The court hears cases from October through April, freeing up a large chunk of the summer to globe-trot, but she also squeezed in trips on weeks when the court was not hearing oral argument. She traveled with other justices but often alone or with her husband and preferred using carry-on luggage. Her law clerks were in awe. She did her best to include them on cultural outings, taking them to museums all over Washington and on brisk walks down Capitol Hill to the Tidal Basin to see the cherry blossoms at their peak bloom. An outing to the National Arboretum was not exactly a stroll in the park. “This wasn’t quite stopping to smell the roses,” recalls Stuart Banner, who clerked for O’Connor in 1991 and ’92. “It was more like speeding up to smell the roses. And learning why they smelled the way they did. And how one could become a better rose smeller.” The clerks did their best to keep up. On a whitewater rafting trip in southern Pennsylvania, the rafting guide carefully instructed the group that if anyone fell out of the boat, no one was to play the hero and jump in to the rescue, because then the guide would have to rescue two people. On the raging river, O’Connor flipped out of the boat.

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Boating with future colleague Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1979

pick up some papers. Encountering her clerks still laboring away, she said, “Go home, you’re working too hard!” One of the clerks, Noah Levine, responded, “OK, does that mean you don’t need this memo first thing in the morning?” O’Connor responded, “No, I want the memo in the a.m.” The clerks shrugged, packed up, and followed

the justice to the elevator. She went down to her car, and the clerks walked around the block, and then went back to work, laughing. The life that O’Connor was modeling would be a challenge for anyone, but O’Connor had an off-the-charts energy level and an almost supernatural capacity to focus on the task at hand. She got across her message. Today, her former law clerks are professors and top corporate counsels, Supreme Court advocates and federal judges; they are also wives, mothers, husbands, and fathers. As engaged citizens, they remember her lesson and her example—to be out and around, curious and vital, and not mere drudges to the job. Evan Thomas is the author of First: Sandra Day O’Connor and other New York Times best-selling books. Is there a person who inspires you? Drop us a line at letters@ southwestmag.com.

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Growing up, my brothers and I wanted to tear one another apart.

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How desperate are my children for a pet? Let's put it this way: Recently, they cosigned a five-page contract—painstakingly composed by my 12-year-old, Josie—pledging not to fight for an entire year in exchange for the pet of their choice. As of this writing, Josie has gone 23 days without a fight, eclipsing her previous record by 22-and-a-half days. I should confess here that my wife, Erin, would be happy to get a pet. She often indulges the kids by looking online at stray cats and dogs and (God help us) baby pigs. I’m the one holding up the acquisition. And the reasons I cite are all eminently reasonable: Our house is too small, we travel too much, we’re completely stressed out already. But the real reason I can’t pull the trigger is because I know, deep down, that no pet will ever live up to Greg Almond, the cat I had in childhood. And by childhood, I mean that Greg lived with us from the time I was 5 until well after I’d left home for college. Greg came to us with a brother, Tiger, though just a few years later Tiger was hit by a car in front of our house. Strange as it may seem, we were young enough that we somehow thought it necessary to bring Tiger inside the house and show him to Greg. This is part of why Greg Almond meant so much to us, I think:

We had shared an early, intense experience of death. I realize that Greg Almond is an absurd name for a feline, by the way. It did not derive from the rock musician Gregg Allman, though the origin of the name is—like virtually every aspect of our childhood—a matter of some dispute. I’d always heard that we chose Greg because he had a gray coat with an egg-shaped white patch on his chest (gray plus egg equals Greg). My older brother Dave claims he bestowed the name in honor of the oldest brother on The Brady Bunch. I also realize that every pet owner on earth believes his or her animal is special. I’m not here to argue that point. I can only tell you that Greg was, in a very real sense, the emotional glue of our family. He was the most empathic creature of any species I’ve ever encountered. What else can you say about a cat that worried about us so much he actually followed us to school? He did this over and over, each day, lingering until my two brothers and I reluctantly carried him home. Mind you, he wasn’t any sort of fancy breed, a Russian blue or a Chartreux. He was just a shelter cat with kind green eyes and a preternatural ability to read our moods and provide us comfort. You see, I grew up in a family that was far more fractious than the one Erin and I preside over. My parents were loving but distracted professionals who gave us the run of the house. My brothers and I turned it into a battlefield, fighting constantly, often physically and at times viciously. I can still remember the feeling of those clashes, the fear and rage that flushed through us, the hammering of our fists and hearts. But what I remember even more vividly is how, after each of these

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altercations, Greg Almond would quietly pad into my room and leap onto my bed to console me. He did this in small physical ways: licking at my bruised knuckles, nuzzling my chin. “I see Greg’s making his rounds,” my dad said to me, after one particularly nasty brawl. Because, of course, Greg did the same thing for my brothers, too. He sensed our pain. And not just the physical kind. Whenever I felt sad— spurned by my brothers or humiliated by the world at large—Greg would appear to offer succor. He behaved like what would now be called a service animal. And our parents understood how important Greg was to us, so much so that he was essentially treated like another sibling. My twin brother, Mike, reminded me of the time that we were pulled from our class and ordered to report to the front office, so that our dad could tell us that Greg had survived his kidney surgery. “Is Greg your brother?” asked the woman at the front desk, sympathetically. “Nope, he’s our cat,” Mike replied. “Dad wouldn’t have called us out of class if it was just a brother.” He was only half-kidding.

twins: one, the angel of mercy, the other, the agent of vengeance. Like any true angel, Greg seemed capable of the miraculous. One time, he curled up for a nap in the back of my mom’s station wagon. She didn’t realize he was there until she arrived at my grandparents’ house. She ran inside to return a serving dish and when she came back to the car, Greg had escaped out a window. Unable to find him, my mom returned home to break the bad news. Our grandparents lived 5 miles away, in a neighboring town, with half a dozen major roads in between. Greg had a flea collar

Whenever I felt sad—spurned by my brothers or humiliated by the world at large— Greg would appear to offer succor.

Greg’s instinctual empathy was all the more remarkable because our home was not an easy place for cats to live. As should be clear, my brothers and I had anger issues, and we sometimes took this out on our pets, treating them roughly. The effect this treatment had on the cat we got a few years later to keep Greg company (a black bruiser we dubbed Butch) was immediate and striking. Butch became the neighborhood bully, and he clawed at us (rather sensibly) if we came too close. Looking back, it seems to me that Butch channeled the free-floating aggression in our home, while Greg tried, heroically, to comfort the hurt boys beneath our hurting. It was like they were dark

on but no other identification. We knew we’d never see him again. My brothers and I were high schoolers by then, well into our sullen teen years. But we were utterly (if quietly) disconsolate. Five days later, we were sitting at the breakfast table talking about Greg, more or less in the past tense, when he suddenly appeared at the back window, emaciated, missing a portion of his left ear, but intact. I’ve always privately regarded this event as quasi-religious: the Resurrection of Greg Almond. I’ve tried to explain all this to my kids, of course, so they understand my reluctance to get another pet. They’re not buying it. “If you loved one pet so much, you can love another one,” Josie told me as I signed her no-fighting-for-a-year contract. She only has 342 days left to prove her point. May the spirit of Greg Almond be with her. Steve Almond is the author of New York Times best-sellers Candyfreak and Against Football. His latest book is William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life. Email him at stevealmond joy@gmail.com. october 2019 Southwest 71

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work from home, in the blissful quiet away from the bustle of the world. I love solitude but don’t like being alone, which could be an impossible paradox—if it weren’t for dogs. Time alone with your dog does not mean being lonely. Recently, deep in thought about a new project, I absentmindedly stood up from my desk and began to pace around my office. During one of these circuits, I became aware that Walter, my 7-month-old, 115-pound wolfhound, was walking with me, step for step. Silently. Seriously. A close, quiet shadow to my left. A partner in my solitude. I laughed at the dearness of what he was doing. As we looked deeply into each other’s eyes, he “smiled” with a relaxed expression and wagged his long tail. When I hugged this great, wiry-coated guy, he leaned into me and I could feel his chest expand as he slowly inhaled and then exhaled in a familiar sigh of contentment. Then I got back to work. More focused, and a little happier. OK, a lot happier. Walter is tall, still growing, rangy, and full of youthful enthusiasm, so in general, I wouldn’t describe him as subtle. Except in moments like these. And I know there are more coming. Many more, because I have so gratefully shared my life, including my solitary moments, with dogs. But isn’t the very idea of sharing solitude a contradiction? About a hundred years ago, the essayist and naturalist John Burroughs made clear that he didn’t think so. He wrote that with a dog, “You are alone and not alone; you have both companionship and solitude.” It’s an idea that has intrigued me, and I’ve known so many others who have expressed this same sentiment: that their dogs have provided soul mate-level company without interfering with contemplation. In fact, they’ve enhanced it. I turned to the experts, starting with Alexandra Horowitz—she’s been thinking, writing about, and analyzing this unique relationship with dogs as head of the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, Columbia University. She’s also shared her insights in wildly popular books—among them the best-selling Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Hear, and the recently released Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond. “With some exceptions, dogs don’t intrude on our solitude,” she wrote to me in an email. “My dog may bark or want attention, but they are hugely agreeable to simply sit when we sit, walk when we walk, play when we play. In fact, there is research showing how quickly dogs will follow their person from sitting to walking to standing—even, often,

turned in the [same] direction their person is.” That, of course, reminded me of the little stroll Walter took with me in my office, the one that was less an interruption and more a psychic bolstering. In recent years, there has been a wonderful explosion of scientific inquiry that takes our bonds with dogs and other animals more seriously than ever. Studies illuminate just how smart dogs are, reveal evidence of the ways in which they (and animals in general) connect with us and us with them, and track the benefits of this connection. It’s mutual.

here are specially designated labs in universities around the world—like the one Horowitz runs— assessing dog cognition, and there’s a hefty dose of bonding analysis involved, too. There are even imaging labs where dogs are (positively) trained to allow for the latest fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) to try to “picture” how dogs’ brains work through patterns of brain activity— what they’re thinking and feeling and what they share with us. All of these pieces are part of a puzzle that’s gradually coming together. The human bond with dogs is at least 15,000 years old, maybe more than twice that, and yet we keep discovering more about it. Lately, it’s with cutting-edge technology. Researchers have known for some time that just being with a dog can

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lower our heart rate and our blood pressure (happily, it’s reciprocal; studies suggest we lower theirs, too). Research from a university in Hungary that used fMRI technology suggests that, among other things, dogs can distinguish emotional cues in our voices. In particular, I’ve always enjoyed the kinds of observations that are about how dogs can be better companions than the people around us. Dogs can lower our stress even when our closest human connections fail. In the 1990s, medical researchers at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York monitored the heart rate and blood pressure of hundreds of couples who were given stressful tasks to perform, such as making a speech or solving math problems. The results suggested that your dog will be of more comfort to you in a given stressful situation than your spouse. Research has revealed that petting a dog (or cat, by the way) can reduce stress-related cortisol levels, that dogs are more expressive when we are looking at them, and that those of us who love dogs may live longer, healthier lives with them. A new report just this year has zeroed in on those expressive doggie eyebrows that lift up and, according to the experts, likely cause a nurturing response in us. It seems that the muscle responsible for that sweet puppy dog expression, so lacking in wolves, evolved because it’s something we favored in the canines who live among us. As that eyebrow inquiry suggested, there is something magical and measurable that often happens when we look into each other’s eyes: We feel good. There have been analyses about that chemical connection and the release of oxytocin, the feel-good “love” hormone. Meg Daley Olmert wrote an entire book about it: Made for Each Other: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond. As Horowitz wrote to me, “If I think about the scientific aspects of dogs that make them such good companions, yes, it’s the oxytocin hit when we pet dogs or gaze at them; it’s their responsiveness to our gaze; [it’s] their looking us in the face, like a partner or friend. It’s also, for me, their being tuned in to aspects of me that I might not be awake to: for instance, their noticing a difference in my behavior when I’m sick or upset. Anecdotally, my dog picked up on my pregnancy before I did; non-anecdotally, we know that they recognize us by our smell, and can find lost humans by theirs. What is more personal than our smell? And yet dogs never complain about it: They revel in it.” Dogs are spectacular beings and individuals, and they’re very much present as their own personalities in the lives of those of us who love them. In our email exchange, I had to agree when

Horowitz kindly balked about labeling time alone with dogs as “solitude.” That’s especially valid if in any way that seems to negate a dog’s own very real presence. So, how do they connect so deeply without making us self-conscious? They certainly don’t achieve that by ignoring us. Horowitz has written that dogs watch us like no other animal watches us. My friend, the naturalist and best-selling author Sy Montgomery, amplified that point to me by phone one afternoon. “No one will see you with as much love,” she said. “They hunger to know us. Dogs have made it their No. 1 job to know what we’re feeling; that’s more than any other animal.” And, in reading us, dogs don’t get hung up on the attributes that we might feel self-conscious about around humans. “Dogs see who you really are,” Sy said. “They don’t care about your eye makeup or if your hair is combed. They see right to your heart, and they don’t get waylaid by that other stuff.” At our best, I hope we do the same for them.

cience may be measuring the way dogs can improve our lives, and Sy even measured her own life by the animals around her in How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals. Everything I do—writing, reading, running errands, driving—is made infinitely better by the presence of a dog. It’s been that way throughout my life. My parents adopted Penny, our first dog—a glorious collie-type mix—when I was 2 years old. No matter what my social or personal circumstance, I am a better person with a dog. And that seems to only be getting stronger. The older I get, the more they are part of my soul and the less I can part from them. I feel different when I am dogless. My friend Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has described losing a dog as akin to losing a limb. Liz is an original thinker and the author of a number of revelatory books like The Hidden Life of Dogs. Dogs “So a dog is like a body part, as important to us as our arms or legs,” Liz wrote in Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind (a book co-authored by Sy, and for which I wrote the foreword). Liz goes on to say, “If we’re in the bathroom taking a shower and our dog comes in to be together, we are no more embarrassed by her presence than we are by the presence of our legs. But if a person comes in, we might grab a towel, the intruder would back out quickly, and a torrent of apologies would follow.” How do we describe the unique role dogs have in our sense of self? Horowitz has listened in on

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the way people talk to their dogs. In her email, she said, “After much eavesdropping on people talking to their dogs—not the imperative commands, but the one-sided conversations—I began to suspect that dogs play a role similar to the voice in our heads that we have an ongoing conversation with. The one who narrates what you’re doing, reflects on what you’ve done, and plans what you might do in the future. We animate that person in our heads and plant them into the figure of the dog. So we would be no more self-conscious around dogs than we are around ourselves. Maybe less so: Our dogs do not care if our shirts are on backward, we have drooled slightly in our sleep (that might be interesting to them, actually!), or we hum off-key. Other people take us out of our own headspace, but dogs are like our better selves.” For most people, the late Edward Albee, a three-time Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, is best

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The writer with her wolfhound, Walter. His hugs are big. Their bond is immeasurable.

known for the play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? But to me, his name is synonymous with wolfhounds. He wrote a beautiful essay about his hounds and how one, Harry, would express himself in an especially wolfhound-y way to those of us who know them. Albee granted me permission in 2007 to reprint that essay in a wolfhound club newsletter I was editing, and the loveliness of his words and his kindness in giving me that permission sticks with me. Albee and Harry would often sit watching the ocean together, and

he wrote that when he’d ask Harry something like, “Aren’t those great waves?!” that the big dog would lean against him “a little and just … sigh.” So, when I think of dogs enhancing our solitude or becoming so close to us that their presence provides a kind of unselfconscious joy, I’m gratified that we’ve got such an abundance of social and medical science these days validating it all. But I don’t really think of computers, laboratories, or brain activity mapping. I think of a playwright’s magnificent friend Harry and dogs like him who sit with us watching the surf. All kinds of waves improve when we’re with a dog we love. Journalist and author Vicki Croke, whose books include Elephant Company and The Lady and the Panda, covers animal issues for the NPR newsmagazine Here & Now. Keep up with Vicki (and Walter) on Twitter: @VickiCroke.

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Every year, there are new attractions (like an exhibition on Texas cinema), new rides (count us in for the gravity-defying thrills of whatever the “Moon Raker” is), and new food. (We feel powerfully drawn to the just-unveiled “Big Red Chicken Bread,” a sunglass-wearing fried chicken wing perched atop a frosted donut.) But it’s the time-tested traditions that keep us coming back to the State Fair of Texas. Chow down on a corny dog, stroll across the historic fairgrounds, and root for your favored swine in the pig races. Out-of-towners are welcome. You’ve heard the cliché about the size of this place, but locals place equal stock in the state motto: “friendship.”

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Dance in the Street Carnival celebrations in cities around the world are marked by lively music, dancing, and vibrant festivities. Of course, in Miami,

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Light Up the Lake That’s not smoke on the water. These lanterns, set adrift on Green Lake at the Seattle Public Theater, get their soft glow from LED lights. Each lantern is inscribed by festival attendees. You can choose what to float onto the lake, whether it’s an illustration, a poem, or a simple signature. Just don’t expect your message to be discovered later. At the end of the Seattle Water Lantern Festival, crews retrieve the lanterns to leave no environmental trace of the evening’s festivities. What remains, though, is the memory of a remarkable sight, one that may conjure feelings of oneness and peace with the world. At the very least, you’ll swoon at the pretty lights.

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Reanimate Yourself Don’t run, don’t walk, but stagger and moan for brains en route to the Reno Zombie Crawl. This night of people dressed as the living dead presents a fun spin on Halloween season carousing, with dozens of downtown bars and casinos participating in drink specials and zombie-themed entertainment. You’ll pay about $10 for a “crawl cup” and a map, which you’ll use for entry into the many parties within walking distance. You’re on your own for a costume, although last year’s event included a zombie makeup station. THROUGH OCTOBER 27 CHICAGO

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Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary (Oct. 9–13 at the Goodman Theatre) is a deeply personal solo show informed by the performer’s family history in Cuba. Hotel-Ó (Oct. 24–27 at the Repertorio Latino Theater Company) is an experimental take on Shakespeare’s Othello, performed in Spanish. The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon (through Oct. 13 at Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theatre) is a one-act drama about a truth-seeking journalist. The plays included in this year’s Chicago International Latino Theater Festival vary in content, but they all feature Latino voices telling stories of immediate cultural relevance.

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that pet owners can check in and observe their dogs whenever they want. Potential franchisees are encouraged to call current franchise owners to get comfortable with Dogtopia, says Neil Gill, the CEO and president of Dogtopia Enterprises. Once approved, candidates are also welcome to visit Dogtopia daycare centers and the Support Office to learn why Dogtopia is the fastestgrowing brand in the booming pet industry. Dogtopia offers an unparal-

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leled level of support, with an experienced and large support team on hand to help, Gill says. Dogtopia’s training and systems made it possible for the Contis to keep their day jobs. Trevor works in wealth management, and Lindsay is a registered nurse. Their Dogtopia franchise gives them newfound independence and a reliable business; it’s also something they can call their own. “It doesn’t feel as much like work when it’s your own thing,” Lindsay says.

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you don’t need industry experience to succeed with a Buzz Franchise Brands business, but you should be passionate about providing great service. Interpersonal skills are most important for a potential franchisee, whether they’re interested in a Pool Scouts pool maintenance franchise, a Home Clean Heroes housecleaning service, or British Swim School. Technical skills can be taught. Franchisees just need to bring a willingness to work hard and learn. The benefit of franchising is the ability to use an established business model, says Gwen Marsh, Pool Scouts’ Marketing Director. “Franchisees need to bring their dedication and determination.” Pool Scouts provides training in day-to-day business operations as well as ongoing technical support and marketing assistance. The corporate team invites franchisees to take advantage of live webinars, online training, and the insights of other franchisees, Marsh says. Pool Scouts is always looking for chances to share the insights of successful entrepreneurs. At British Swim School, franchisees get the same level of support. Tracey Weller was a senior technical recruiter and staffing program manager for a tech company before she opened a franchise in Seattle. “It didn’t matter that I didn’t have an aquatics back-

ground,” Weller says. British Swim School provides excellent training in aquatics and swim instruction, and successful franchisees share their best practices with others. Brian Garrison, President of British Swim School, says a comprehensive training and onboarding process coupled with ongoing support gives prospective franchisees “a leg up relative to those trying to bootstrap their own businesses.”

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be part of a team with lunchboxwax there’s nothing to fear when you sign a LunchboxWax franchise agreement. You’re going into the luxury speed wax business as a partner. “People buy into a franchise because of the efficiencies of scale you get with access to a proven business model,” says Debi Lane, LunchboxWax’s founder and CEO. “Our job as the franchisor is to commu-

nicate, collaborate, and give franchise partners the tools to be confident business owners.” Whether you’re new to the business or you’ve been with LunchboxWax for a long time, Lane says, the key to success is the same: Stay connected as a community and realize that together you are stronger. Known for its hip, cheeky vibe and a culture that pro-

Vice president of salon development Jinell Lanier and vice president of marketing Shaunalee Shipman.

motes confidence and leadership, LunchboxWax salons offer 15- and 30-minute services centered on soft-wax techniques to remove hair from a guest’s face, body, legs, or feet. Although the service is speedy, each guest gets a luxury spa experience complete with music from the company’s own specialized playlist as well as perfumed air pumped into salon lobbies. LunchboxWax chooses partners because of their ability to take the brand’s benefits and translate them into something meaningful, both to the guests they serve and to their communities, Lane says. “We want collaboration,” says Shaunalee Shipman, vice president of marketing. “Your success is our success, too.” Collaboration extends from headquarters to franchisees, waxologists, and customers. Franchisees come from all walks of life. Some have previous experience in the beauty industry, but it’s not necessary. LunchboxWax doesn’t expect every franchisee to know everything right away, says Jinell Lanier, vice president of salon development. The company meets with new business owners to help them with their business. LunchboxWax teams assist with everything from site selection and salon construction to daily business operations. They will also help with hiring and mentoring waxologists. Nicky Lecher, who opened her LunchboxWax salon in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2015, says new franchisees should embrace the brand and company culture to succeed.

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trust an industry leader investing in a SealMaster franchise is a good decision for entrepreneurs who want to grow and associate with an industry leader. “SealMaster is synonymous with pavement maintenance and preservation, which is a huge industry,” says business development director Jason Hedlesky. Potential franchisees have the option to purchase manufacturing territories or distribution-only territories. With a manufacturing territory, SealMaster franchisees produce pavement sealers. With a distribution territory, franchisees are supplied with

SealMaster pavement sealers. In both cases, they distribute a full line of pavement maintenance products and equipment. Both options equip franchisees to uphold SealMaster’s “One-Stop Source” brand promise. “Our customers know we’re going to have what they need when they need it,” Hedlesky

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says. “We equip our franchisees with the training and support to be the preferred suppliers in their protected franchisee territories, which are large by design.” According to Hedlesky, a SealMaster franchise is ideal for someone who wants extraordinary growth and income potential. “The formula for success is provided in detail in the SealMaster Operations Manual.” SealMaster franchisees employ a number of outside sales representatives who call on contractors, municipalities, property managers, and others charged with maintaining paved capital assets, including commercial parking lots, roads, airport pavements, institutional and governmental pavements, and more.

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supportive and welcoming environment. Franchisees staff centers with workers from Senior Helpers, the home care innovator specializing in treating patients with dementia, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s. That industry experience, plus the strong level of support provided by Town Square’s corporate staff, gives franchisees the assistance they need to thrive with a new business. Greg White, Town Square’s vice president of franchise development, says he has worked with a number of franchisees who had previously struggled with finding quality care for their aging parents. For them, it was personal. And for every Town Square franchisee, a business opportunity is also a chance to do some good.

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LUNCHBOXWAX: A BADASS BRAND IN SEARCH OF BOLD LEADERS

How does a brand devoted solely to body waxing keep producing fresh headlines and storefronts? The secret is in the culture. LunchboxWax doesn’t do inauthenticity. When CEO Debi Lane founded the body waxing brand in 2010, she knew there were others in the wax-only industry, and one big brand dominating the space at the time, but that didn’t make her shy away. In fact, she leaned in. She knew that there was room and a need for a brand that was built with one main focus – its people. “We knew we had a superior waxing method to our competition, but what we wanted to do was humanize the guest experience and empower our workforce – that is what was missing out there.” And that was the birth of the LunchboxWax culture. “Make no mistake,” Lane says, “we are passionate about our culture, but we are equally focused on the business side. Hair keeps growing and we keep ripping it out – it’s a good business model!”

“When we meet with potential franchisees, we’re clear that they need to truly buy-in,” says Lane. “From one community serving another, to honoring all bodies, to our culture of beauty, collaboration, and purpose, what we hear back is pure excitement. They understand that we are building something very special – a movement! With what other brand can you embrace tenets like that?” That uncompromising spirit has paid off. Listed as one of the country’s fastest-growing franchises, with write-ups in Entrepreneur and the New York Post, and a turn-key model with modest start-up costs, LunchboxWax is poised to tap the $14B waxing and salon market. But the proof resides at the ground level. “Our franchise partners strive to be a positive force in their communities, personally and

professionally,” says Lane. “And our commitments are paying off, from our guests to waxologists to franchise owners, I’ll gladly stack our reviews against any other brand.” Potential partners are lining up. Before they decide to join the LunchboxWax family, Lane encourages them to visit a salon. She cites: “We want them to feel what we are talking about – what makes us stand apart from our competition. Once they experience our waxing technique and vibe, they’re hooked – just like our guests!” “We instantly thought it’d be a fit for our community,” says Bridge D’Urso, a franchise partner in Oregon. “Then I went into one of the salons to see for myself, and there was no doubt this would be my next adventure.”

“Our mission has remained the same since our inception: be bold, be real, and success will follow.” - Debi Lane, Founder and CEO

Fellow franchise owner Neal Habas agrees: “Walk into any salon, and the competence and kindness is palpable. The energy resonates and tells a great story. It’s natural to want to be a part of it.” With a number of prime territories open, endless opportunity awaits. But as Lane says, “Only the bold need apply.” Learn more about LunchboxWax franchising by calling 833-426-1198 or visit lunchboxfranchise. com/sw.

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The city celebrated its tricentennial last year, but in New Orleans, the party never really ends. Sip on a Sazerac, mosey on down to the Mississippi River, and get your fill of jazz. After all, every party needs a good soundtrack. by tommie ethington

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For more than 300 years, New Orleans has been inspiring stories. Our Spanish, French, African and Caribbean influences create a cultural gumbo of distinctive architecture, cool jazz and celebrated cuisine that only New Orleans knows how to dish out. From second line parades to centuries old streetcars, this timeless city offers something amazing around every cobblestone corner.

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an interactive culinary lab, and a restored wetlands area. At the Audubon Zoo, take in the recently opened African lion habitat to learn about the importance of conservation. Visitors can also head to Mardi Gras World to get up close with parade floats and over-the-top costumes. Soon, preparations will begin for the holidays. Streetcars and steamboats will be decked out for the occasion as carolers descend on Jackson Square. If you find yourself in the city on Christmas Eve, join the locals in carrying on a tradition started by the Louisiana region’s earliest Cajun settlers. Along the Mississippi River’s levees, townspeople erect bonfires to light the way for Papa Noel and his reindeer. The typical design resembles a pyramid-shaped cone, but creative one-off configurations mimic everything from Cajun-style cabins to pickup trucks. Some neighborhoods even serve steaming bowls of gumbo and end the celebration with a fireworks show. To get the full experience, rent a car or book one of the motor-coach tours offered through Gray Line Tours.

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its rich history. There’s the architecture and cobblestone streets of the French Quarter, time-honored traditions like Mardi Gras, and the city’s claim to fame as the birthplace of the cocktail. Equally impressive is New Orleans’ knack for reinventing itself. This year alone ushered in a billion-dollar airport expansion and a 6-acre addition to

the outdoor oasis that is the New Orleans Museum of Art’s free outdoor sculpture garden. This fall, the city will also see the opening of The Sazerac House, an immersive cocktail experience dedicated to exploring New Orleans’ spirited culture, both past and present. Families won’t want to miss the Louisiana Children’s Museum, which has a new home at City Park. Highlights include a floating classroom,

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catch of the year

it’s been a good year for chef Nathan Richard. In June, he was crowned “King of Louisiana Seafood” at the annual Louisiana Seafood Cook-Off. Then, in August, the executive chef of New Orleans restaurant DTB, short for Down the Bayou, won the Great American Seafood Cook-Off. Focused on coastal Cajun cuisine, the menu at DTB is informed by

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Richard’s youth spent hunting and fishing on the bayous and marshes of south Louisiana. Here, he shares what went into his winning dish and why he thinks Louisiana seafood is, well, king. Q: Did you have a favorite seafood dish growing up? A: Oh, yes! My daddy does an

opened-face redfish on the half-shell. It’s usually stuffed with fresh crab meat, shrimp, and oysters. It’s so refreshing.

Q: You won both cook-offs with a crawfish and goat cheese king cake. What inspired that dish? A: Two things come to mind.

First, I was born on Kings’ Day and am constantly reminded when it’s king cake season. Second, John Ed Laborde of Panaroma Foods in Marksville, Louisiana, inspired me with one of the most delicious foods at Jazz Fest: his crawfish bread.

Q: Can we get a taste of the cake? A: Starting on Jan. 6, it will be

on the menu at DTB for Mardi Gras. However, you don’t have to wait that long, because the cakes are now available year-round, and they can be shipped anywhere in the country if you order online at CajunGrocer.com.

Q: What is it that sets Louisiana seafood apart? A: No other state considers

alligator a seafood. That alone is unique. But we have so much more here—you can go frogging at night and fishing the next morning, and you might even be able to catch an ice chest of shrimp at the same time. There is nothing like it.

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in the 1800s, steamboats

would play the calliope to alert townspeople of the boat’s arrival in port. Today, musicians on the Steamboat Natchez— the last authentic steam-powered boat on the Mississippi River—serenade passersby in the French Quarter by playing the steam-powered organ three times a day. To get up close, book one of Steamboat Natchez’s daily

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sightseeing cruises. During the two-hour, 15-mile roundtrip journey, you can tour the steam engine room, enjoy the musical stylings of a live jazz trio, and learn about the history of the river from an onboard guide. Other offerings include a Sunday jazz brunch (be sure to order a Cajun Bloody Mary), a nightly dinner cruise with a buffet of New Orleans staples, and holiday-themed cruises.

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These special cruises tend to fill up early, so be sure to buy tickets in advance. The New Year’s Eve Gala cruise is particularly memorable as guests are given a front-row seat to the fireworks spectacle over the river. This fall, Steamboat Natchez also plans to add a sister vessel. The recently renovated Riverboat City of New Orleans will be powered by a paddlewheel and offer daily brunch and dinner cruises.

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THE BEIGNETS SERVED at Cafe Beignet’s four locations are traditional, which is to say they come with no filling and a heavy helping of powdered sugar. Even better? They’re served with live music. In 1990, a group of friends

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Park, where you’ll find life-size bronze sculptures of famed New Orleans musicians, including Fats Domino and Pete Fountain. The cafe’s courtyard hosts live music daily. For people-watching, head to Decatur Street. This location boasts great street views, a beautifully restored 48-foot bar, and an old player piano. The newest addition on St. Peter Street pays homage to the building’s former tenant: the Old Coffee Pot. For more than 100 years, the French Quarter establishment sold a pastry similar to a beignet, only crunchier because of its use of rice flour. When the Old Coffee Pot closed and Cafe Beignet took over, the popular menu item stayed on. Whether you crave history, live music, or a sugary treat, you’ll find all

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since 1893, Commander’s Palace has been an iconic neighborhood restaurant, nestled in the heart of New Orleans’ Garden District. Cousins and co-proprietors Ti Adelaide Martin and Lally

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Brennan took over the family business more than 20 years ago. While many traditions remain intact—like 25-cent martinis at lunch and a jazz brunch—they’re focused on the restaurant’s evolution. The menu changes constantly. In the spring, regulars look forward to a shortcake made exclusively with strawberries picked from the nearby town of Ponchatoula. In the fall, there’s usually some version of a quail dish, often stuffed with cornbread and tasso, doused in a molasses-bacon glaze, or given some other delicious treatment. One of the best ways to experience the variety of dishes is through a multicourse tasting menu dubbed the Chef’s Playground. Splurge for the optional wine pairing or choose from the cocktail list, which boasts creative drinks like the Tequila Mockingbird.

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Check out these reminders to enjoy a stress-free travel experience. Secure a position in the A1-A15 boarding group with Upgraded Boarding. Ask a Customer Service Agent at the gate or ticket counter.*

SAY CHEESE!

Please be respectful of Employees and Customers when capturing photos or videos onboard.

We serve complimentary snacks,** but feel free to bring your own food onboard— you just can’t bring your own alcohol to consume onboard.

SMOKE-FREE E-cigarettes are not allowed to be used in the cabin.

Permitted Pueden usarse dentro del avión

Small portable electronic devices (PEDs) such as tablets, e-readers, and smartphones weighing less than 2 pounds may be used in AIRPLANE mode at all times on domestic flights, unless a Crew Member indicates otherwise. A small PED may be held in hand, attached to a person, or placed in clothing or a seatback pocket. Devices and accessories may not block access to the aisle. Large PEDs such as laptops weighing 2 pounds or more must be stowed under the seat or in an overhead bin for taxi, takeoff, and landing. It is recommended that laptops be placed in a case when stowed under the seat. Please use headphones for all audio and video. Siempre puedes usar dispositivos electrónicos portátiles y pequeños (PEDs) tales como tabletas, lectores electrónicos y teléfonos inteligentes que pesen menos de 2 libras en modo AVIÓN en los vuelos domésticos, excepto si un Miembro de la Tripulación indica lo contrario. Puedes tener un PED pequeño en la mano, llevarlo encima, en la ropa o en un bolsillo en el respaldo del asiento. Los dispositivos y accesorios no pueden bloquear el acceso al pasillo. Los PEDs grandes como computadoras portátiles que pesen 2 libras o más deben de ser guardados debajo del asiento o en los compartimentos superiores mientras el avión avanza por la

pista, durante el despegue y el aterrizaje. Se recomienda que las computadoras portátiles se guarden en un estuche debajo del asiento. Por favor usa auriculares para cualquier sonido o video. Smartphones (in AIRPLANE mode) Teléfonos inteligentes (en modo AVIÓN) Tablets or E-readers (in AIRPLANE mode) Tabletas o lectores electrónicos (en modo AVIÓN) Laptop Computers Computadoras portátiles Audio Players Aparatos de audio DVD/CD Players Reproductores de DVD/CD

Digital Cameras Cámaras digitales GPS Receivers GPS Hand-Held Electronic Games Juegos electrónicos portátiles Satellite Radio Radio por satélite Video Camcorders Videocámaras Bluetooth Devices Dispositivos Bluetooth

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Pueden usarse en ocasiones dentro del avión We understand you may want to document your travel on Southwest Airlines®. Want to photograph and/or record Southwest Airlines Customers or Employees? Let them know first! The use of cameras and mobile devices is permitted onboard to capture personal events but can never interfere with the safety of a flight and should always respect others’ privacy. Entendemos que es posible que desees documentar tu viaje en Southwest Airlines. ¿Quieres fotografiar y / o grabar Clientes o Empleados de Southwest Airlines? ¡Hazles saber primero! El uso de cámaras y dispositivos móviles se permite a bordo para capturar eventos personales, pero nunca debe interferir con la seguridad de un vuelo y siempre debe respetar la privacidad de los demás.

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Pueden usarse en todo momento dentro del avión Electronic nerve stimulators and other implanted medical devices are also permitted. Dispositivos de estimulación electrónica de los nervios y otros aparatos médicos implantados también son permitidos. Pacemakers Marcapasos Hearing Aids Aparatos para sordos Electric Shavers Rastrillo eléctrico Electronic Watches Relojes electrónicos Noise-Canceling Headphones Auriculares que aislan el ruido

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Devices capable of transmitting data, unless otherwise noted, are never permitted. Nunca son permitidos los dispositivos con capacidad para transmitir datos, excepto que se especifique lo contrario. Two-Way Radios (Walkie-Talkies) or Scanners Radios emisores/receptores (walkie-talkies) Television or AM/FM Radio Receivers Televisión o radios de AM/FM Remote-Controlled Toys Juguetes de control remoto Electronic Cigarettes and Smoking Devices not allowed for use in the cabin. No se permite el uso de Cigarrillos Electrónicos y Dispositivos para fumar adentro de la cabina. Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone

Also Good to Know También es bueno saber DISABILITY ASSISTANCE Southwest Airlines offers assistance to Customers with disabilities upon request. Please notify a Flight Attendant if you use a needle/ syringe while onboard so we may provide you with access to a disposal container. Southwest Airlines siempre ofrece asistencia para sus Clientes con discapacidades que así lo soliciten. Por favor, notifícale a un Auxiliar de Vuelo si necesitas usar una jeringa durante el vuelo para que podamos proporcionarte acceso al contenedor de desperdicios. CREW INTERFERENCE Federal law prohibits any Passenger from assaulting, threatening, or intimidating a Crew Member or interfering with a Crew Member’s duties. La ley federal prohíbe que los pasajeros ataquen, amenacen o intimiden a los Miembros de la Tripulación o que interfieran con los deberes de un Miembro de la Tripulación. ELECTRONIC DEVICES Cellphones and pagers may be used at the gate and after landing. Los teléfonos y localizadores pueden ser usados en la puerta y después de aterrizar.

CARRYON BAGGAGE Customers are limited to one (1) bag per person, plus one (1) smaller personal item. El límite es de una (1) maleta por persona y un (1) artículo personal más pequeño.

No serviremos bebidas alcohólicas a las personas menores de 21 años de edad. Nos reservamos el derecho de negar la venta de bebidas alcohólicas a cualquier persona a discreción de nuestros Empleados.

LOST AN ITEM ONBOARD A FLIGHT? Visit the Customer Service page on Southwest. com to report a lost item. Visita la página de Servicio al Cliente en Southwest.com para reportar un objeto perdido.

PERSONAL DEVICES Unapproved personal devices (e.g., Knee Defender, infant slings) may not be attached to any part of the aircraft. Dispositivos personales no aprobados (coo por ejemplo “defensores de rodillas” o mantas portabebés) no pueden sujetarse a ninguna parte de la aeronave.

PETS All pets must stay inside their carriers and under the seat (not in an unoccupied seat) for the duration of the flight. Todas las mascotas deben estar adentro de sus portamascotas y debajo del asiento (no en un asiento vacío) mientras dure el vuelo. Southwest.com/pets ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Customers are prohibited from consuming alcoholic beverages not purchased onboard. Alcoholic beverages will not be served to anyone under the age of 21. We reserve the right to refuse the sale of alcoholic beverages to anyone at our Employees’ discretion. Se prohíbe que los Clientes consuman bebidas alcohólicas si no fueron compradas a bordo.

SEATBELT EXTENSIONS Only seatbelt extensions provided by Southwest Airlines are approved for use onboard the aircraft. Only one seatbelt extension per person is allowed. Solo están aprobadas las extensiones para el cinturón de seguridad provistas por Southwest Airlines para su uso abordo de la aeronave. Se permite una sola extensión para el cinturón de seguridad por persona.

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To view movies and select ondemand TV content, download the Southwest® app from the Google Play store or Apple App Store before your flight. 1

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Tap the Settings icon, and then put phone on Airplane Mode. Choose the WiFi icon. Turn WiFi On with On/Off button.

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If the Inflight Entertainment Portal doesn’t load automatically, type Southwestwifi.com into the address bar.

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Click the WiFi icon.

Select SouthwestWiFi from your WiFi network list. A new page will appear with a link to Southwestwifi. com or an option to copy the URL. Click the link or copy it into your browser.

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Select your entertainment option and enjoy.

2 Messaging service allows access only to iMessage and WhatsApp (must be downloaded before the flight). 3Free live TV and iHeartRadio on WiFi-enabled international flights may not be available for the full duration of the flight. *Free inflight entertainment available only on WiFi-enabled aircraft. Limited-time offer. Where available.

• Content and services are offered on WiFi-enabled aircraft only. We cannot guarantee that connecting flights will be WiFi-enabled. • Service on flights to/from destinations outside the contiguous U.S. may not currently be available for the entire flight.

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Business Select Customers receive a free premium drink† on the day of travel.

Leinenkugel’s Oktoberfest CELEBRATE AUTUMN’S ARRIVAL

with this Märzen-style beer. Touting a toasted malt flavor and hints of hops that pay homage to its namesake festival, this seasonal brew is available through October. Visit the brewery in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, to see how it’s grown since German immigrant Jacob Leinenkugel founded it in 1867. Prost!

COMPLIMENTARY BEVERAGES

• Coca-Cola® • Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar • Diet Coke® • Canada Dry® Lemon Lime Sparkling Water • 7UP® • Dr Pepper® • Diet Dr Pepper® • Seagram’s® Ginger Ale • Seagram’s® Tonic Water • Seagram’s® Seltzer Water • Mr & Mrs T® Bloody Mary Mix • Mr & Mrs T® Margarita Mix • Mott’s® Tomato Juice • Minute Maid® Cranberry Apple Cocktail

• Minute Maid® Orange Juice • Minute Maid® Apple Juice • Minute Maid® Pineapple Orange Juice** • Community® coffee* • Community® decaf instant coffee* • Community® tea • Hot Chocolate • Noncarbonated Purified Drinking Water

* Regular creamer available ** Beverage available only on flights to/from Hawaii

All alcoholic beverages purchased onboard must be consumed onboard the aircraft.

BEER $6-$7

• Miller Lite® ($6) • Dos Equis® Special Lager ($6) • Leinenkugel’s® Oktoberfest ($7) • Lagunitas® 12th of Never Ale ($7) • Blue Moon® Belgian White Ale ($7) • Kona Longboard Island Lager ($7)*

WINE $6

• Carmenet Cabernet

Sauvignon • Cruset Sparkling Wine • Mossel Bay Chenin Chardonnay

LIQUOR $7

• • • • • • • •

Dewar’s® Scotch Jack Daniel’s® Wild Turkey ® Tanqueray® Gin Bacardi® Rum Baileys® Irish Cream Deep Eddy Vodka Deep Eddy Ruby Red Grapefruit Vodka • Cazadores Tequila Blanco • Blue Chair Bay Coconut Spiced Rum* * Beverage available only on flights to/from Hawaii

†You must be 21 years or older to drink alcoholic beverages. According to the U.S. Surgeon General, women who are pregnant or who may become pregnant should not drink alcoholic beverages because of the risk of birth defects. Images of the alcoholic beverage product do not reflect how it is actually served. Customer will not receive a beverage with a cap. In accordance with FAA regulations, Customers are prohibited from consuming alcoholic beverages onboard that are not served by Southwest Airlines.

Valid Southwest Rapid Rewards® drink coupons, as shown here, are printed with expiration dates and the Member’s (or issuing group’s) name. Business Select drink coupons are valid for sameday use only. Valid Rapid Rewards® and Business Select drink coupons will be accepted onboard for beer, wine, and liquor. RECYCLING

We’re happy to recycle the following items for you: empty plastic bottles, empty aluminum cans, and newspapers/magazines. RECEIPTS

Customers can retrieve drink receipts at Southwest.com/ beveragereceipts.

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Products and Services

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*Prices are per Passenger and based on Customer’s itinerary.

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Rapid Rewards

Get to the Points

Earning Rapid Rewards® points is a breeze, meaning you can get to your next vacation faster. With 100-plus destinations to pick from, Southwest® can help you take your dream trip. If you’re just shy of getting away, visit Southwest.com/pointscenter to buy points. ENROLL NOW! Not a Rapid Rewards Member? Sign up at Southwest.com/enroll.

All Rapid Rewards rules and regulations apply and can be found at Southwest.com/rrterms.

50,000 points after you spend $2,000 on purchases in the first three months of opening your account • 7,500 anniversary points • 4 Upgraded Boardings* per year • $75 Southwest® annual travel credit • 20% back on inflight purchases

Hotels

Paint the town red; then turn in at your favorite hotel and earn up to 10,000 Rapid Rewards points per night.† Book now at Southwesthotels.com in partnership with Booking.com.

*When available

Visit our Inflight Entertainment Portal at Southwestwifi.com to learn more about the exclusive 50,000 point offer. Accounts subject to credit approval. Restrictions and limitations apply. Southwest Rapid Rewards® Credit Cards are issued by Chase Bank USA, N.A. 50,000 point offer is exclusive to the Southwest Inflight Entertainment Portal and airport kiosks (where available) and is subject to change. See Southwestwifi.com and click the Southwest Rapid Rewards Credit Card link for offer details. To learn more about the Rapid Rewards Priority Credit Card visit Southwest.com. All Southwest Rapid Rewards® Program Rules and Regulations apply; please visit Southwest.com/rrterms.

Earn from 1,000 to 10,000 points per night for every hotel stay booked through Rocketmiles. Visit rocketmiles.com/southwest to book now.

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Earn 50,000 Points

EXCLUSIVE INFLIGHT PORTAL OFFER

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Rapid Rewards Tiers and Companion Pass A-LIST Along with priority boarding, A-List Members receive a 25 percent point-earning bonus, Fly By® priority check-in and security lane access,* a dedicated phone line to answer any questions, and more. Southwest.com/ALstatus A-LIST PREFERRED Want even more perks? As an A-List Preferred Member, you not only get all the perks of being an A-Lister, you also get free inflight WiFi (where available) and a 100 percent point-earning bonus. Southwest.com/ALPstatus COMPANION PASS Every time you purchase a flight or redeem points for a flight, Companion Pass lets you choose one person to fly free of carrier charges** with you for an entire calendar year. Southwest.com/ companion *For a complete list of available Fly By locations, visit Southwest.com/flyby. **Does not include taxes and fees from $5.60 one-way. Visit Southwest.com/ rrterms for a complete list of Companion Pass rules.

Rental Cars

Speed up the earning with your next car rental. Earn 600 points per qualifying rental.† Visit Southwest.com/car-rentals to book now.

†Hotels and Rental Cars: Potential to earn additional points depending on applicable promotion. Partners are subject to change. All Rapid Rewards rules and regulations apply and can be found at Southwest.com/ rrterms. ©2019 Southwest Airlines Co.

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Earn Rapid Rewards points for shopping at hundreds of your favorite online retailers. Visit rrshopping.southwest. com to learn more.

Earn 2,000 Rapid Rewards bonus points when you join the 4 Seasons wine club—plus 3 complimentary bottles. Learn more at laithwaiteswine.com/ southwest.

Close to a reward flight but need a few more points? You can buy points for yourself, give them as a gift, or transfer points from your Rapid Rewards account to another Member—all from one location. Visit Southwest. com/pointscenter to get started.

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Go International

TEST THE WATERS

Guests at Hotel Riu Vallarta enjoy access to a private beach on Bay of Banderas.

Insider’s Puerto Vallarta Southwest® serves 13 international destinations, SOUTHWEST VACATIONS® SWEEPSTAKES Visit Southwestvacations.com/WinPVR and enter for your chance to win round trip air travel for two on Southwest Airlines® to Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport, four-night double accommodations at Hotel Riu Vallarta, and airport/hotel transfers in Mexico.* Boarding, Customs, and Immigration 1

This Space For Offical Use Only

2. Free of duty imports: passengers entering the country by sea or by air may import goods of duty, additional to their personal baggage, as long as they prove their value with an invoice or receipt and such amount does not exceed 300 US dollars or its equivalent in domestic or foreign currency or 75 US dollars when the entry is by land. Alcoholic beverages, shredded tobacco or automobile fuel cannot be imported as part of the duty free exemption.

Customs Declaration

FORM APPROVED OMB NO. 1651-0009

19 CFR 122.27, 148.12, 148.13, 148.110,148.111, 1498; 31 CFR 5316

During the vacation periods of Holy week, summer and winter, Mexican Nationals entering the country by land may import, under duty exemption, items of up to 300 US dollars or its equivalent in domestic or foreign currency provided that such people do not live along the border strip or border region. The starting and ending dates of such periods can be consulted directly with customs personnel or at www. aduanas.gob.mx.

Each arriving traveler or responsible family member must provide the following information (only ONE written declaration per family is required). The term “family” is defined as “members of a family residing in the same household who are related by blood, marriage, domestic relationship, or adoption.” 1 Family Name

First (Given) 2 Birth date

Middle Month

Day

Year

3 Number of Family members traveling with you 4 (a) U.S. Street Address (hotel name/destination

(b) City

6 Passport number 7 Country of Residence

trip prior to U.S. arrival

11 I am (We are) bringing

(a) fruits, vegetables, plants, seeds, food, insects: (b) meats, animals, animal/wildlife products: (c) disease agents, cell cultures, snails: (d) soil or have been on a farm/ranch/pasture: 12 I have (We have) been in close proximity of livestock:

Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

No No No No No

Yes

(such as touching or handling)

13 I am (We are) carrying currency or monetary instruments

over $10,000 U.S. or foreign equivalent:

(see definition of monetary instruments on reverse)

14 I have (We have) commercial merchandise:

Yes

(articles for sale, samples used for soliciting orders, or goods that are not considered personal effects)

15 RESIDENTS—the total value of all goods, including commercial merchandise

I/we have purchased or acquired abroad, (including gifts for someone else, but not items mailed to the U.S.) and am/are bringing to the U.S. is: $ VISITORS—the total value of all articles that will remain in the U.S., including commercial merchandise is: $

Read the instructions on the back of this form. Space is provided to list all the items you must declare.

Signature

1 Last name(s) Nationality

Mexican laws establish among others the following penalties and sanctions related to the importation of goods into the country: • Omission to declare whether coming in or out of the Mexico´s customs amounts of cash, in domestic or foreign checks, payment orders or any other documents receivable in an aggregate amount exceeding the equivalent of 10,000 US dollars or its equivalent in domestic or foreign currency, which action will be punishable with a fine of 20 to 40% of the exceeding amount and the corresponding criminal penalties will be applied. • Introduction into or extraction of goods from Mexico, using deceitful methods to hide items, when their imports or exports is prohibited, restricted or because foreign trade duties must be paid, will be punishable with fines ranging, to 70 or 100%, of the commercial value of merchandise. • Omission of the total or partial payment of foreign trade duties. When failure consist of only a duty omission and the goods do not exceed 3,000 US dollars or its equivalent In domestic or foreign currency, the penalty will consist of up to 116% of the commercial value of the items. Once the duties have been paid, the Customs Authority will make the items available to the passenger. • If the corresponding documentation required by the Customs Law prove that the merchandise was properly submitted for proper customs procedures in order to enter the country, is not exhibited, a precautionary seizure of the non declared goods as well as the corresponding vehicle, in case the passengers entered the country by land, will proceed. • For non declared items which do not comply with regulations and restrictions other than duties, abandonment can be declared once the corresponding fine is paid.

Issue on 2013. Please look up for changes in this information when you are visiting us again at customs desk or at www.aduanas.gob.mx Date (month/day/year)

Welcome to Mexico

Name(s)

I HAVE READ THE IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON THE REVERSE SIDE OF THIS FORM AND HAVE MADE A TRUTHFUL DECLARATION.

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for passengers coming from abroad

Passengers may import items to their personal baggage without requiring the services of a customs agent by paying a global rate of 16%, provided that the total amount, excluding the duty free exemption, does not exceed 3,000 US dollars or its equivalent in domestic or foreign currency as long as an invoice, proof of payment or any other document that proves the commercial value of the items is provided.

INFRACTIONS AND SANCTIONS

9 Airline/Flight No. or Vessel Name 10 The primary purpose of this trip is business:

CBP Form 6059B (04/14)

sat.gob.mx

aduanas.gob.mx

Customs Declaration

Please read the instructions prior to filling this form: Every passenger or head of household must provide the following information.

PAYMENT OF DUTIES

• Duties can be paid using the form “Pago de contribuciones al comercio exterior” (Foreign trade tax payment). • The total value of computer equipment, added to the rest of the items above cannot exceed 4,000 US dollars or its equivalent in domestic or foreign currency. • Items subject to compliance, regulations other than payment of duties (permits, certificates, and notifications) cannot be imported. • In order to determine the tax basis, the duty free exemptions mentioned in number 2 could be deducted from the value of the items.

5 Passport issued by (country)

8 Countries visited on this

Date of birth

Day

Month

Year

Passport number

VISITORS T Number of days you will stay in Mexico RESIDENTS OF MEXICO Number of days you stayed abroad

Number of family members traveling with you Number of luggage pieces (bags and packages) you bring with you Missing luggage or luggage to be imported by cargo (pieces) (See Notification 1 of this form)

4 MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION Mark with an X the means of transportation Maritime Vessel No.

Ground Transport No.

Air Flight No.

5 Carrying money in cash, receivables or a combination of both is legal; however, not declaring the total amount when more than the equivalent of 10,000 US dollars is carried may be subject to administrative or criminal penalties. Are you carrying amounts in cash, documents receivable (checks, promissory notes, payment orders, etc.) or a combination of them, the combined total of which exceeds 10,000 US dollars or their equivalent in national or foreign currency?

No If you have answered Yes, please declare the total amount in US dollars

Yes

If you answer Yes, you must also fill out the “Declaración de internación o extracción de cantidades en efectivo y/o documento por cobrar” (Customs Declaration for the import/export of cash, receivables or equivalent documents), which you can request from the customs personnel in charge at the entry ports to Mexico or download it from the Customs Internet Site: www.aduanas.gob.mx

U.S. CUSTOMS DECLARATION FORM*

Who must complete this form: • All Passengers (or one Passenger per family with the same address) bound for the U.S. How to complete this form: • Complete before arrival in the U.S. • Write in English, in capital letters. • Be sure to include the street name and number, city, and

state of your address in the U.S. • If you are transiting through the U.S., you may write TRANSIT and your final destination country. • Lines 5 and 6 may be left blank if not using a passport. • On Line 9, enter WN for Southwest, followed by your specific flight number. • Please read both sides of the declaration. • Sign at the “X.”

PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF HOTEL RIU VALLARTA; PHOTOGRAPHY BY LINDA RAYMOND/ISTOCK (BUCERÍAS)

including Puerto Vallarta.

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PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF PUERTO VALLARTA CVB (COLOMITOS); PHOTOGRAPHY BY TIM FLEMING/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO (WHALE)

COLOMITOS This tiny cove has been dubbed Mexico’s smallest beach and one of its best-kept secrets. Accessible only by boat or on foot, this quiet oasis is well worth the trip.

WHALE WATCHING If you can time your trip during migration season (December–March), sign up for an excursion with Vallarta Adventures to get a glimpse of humpback whales in their natural habitat.

BUCERÍAS Just 30 minutes north of Puerto Vallarta, this small beach town sits next to Bay of Banderas. Along Bucerías’ cobblestone streets, you’ll discover art galleries, flea markets, and plenty of old-world charm.

*NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. Void where prohibited. Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia (excluding Alaska) age 21 or older at time of entry. Limit one entry per person. All fields must be completed. Approximate retail value of prize: $2,800. For complete details and Official Rules, visit Southwestvacations.com/WinPVR. By submitting this entry, you agree to the Official Rules. By entering, information collected will be used in accordance with Sponsor’s Privacy Policy at Southwestvacations.com/generalinformation/privacy-and-security-policy. Sponsor: Apple Leisure Group, doing business as Southwest Vacations, 8517 South Park Circle, Orlando, FL 32819. Enter by 11:59 p.m. CT on Oct. 31, 2019. International air travel does not include taxes and fees of at least $5.60 per one-way flight.

MEXICAN CUSTOMS DECLARATION FORM

Who must complete this form: • All Passengers (or one Passenger per family with the same address) on flights bound for Mexico. How to complete this form: • Complete sections 1–6. • Once completed, sign and date the form.

MEXICAN IMMIGRATION FORM

Who must complete this form: • All Passengers (including children) who are not citizens of Mexico, on flights bound for Mexico. How to complete this form: • Complete sections 1–14 on the top portion of the form and sections 1–10 on the bottom portion of the form. • Once completed, sign and date the top portion of the form.

• Sections on the form titled “USO OFICIAL” are for use by Mexican Immigration officials and should not be filled out by Passengers. What to do with this form: • The form will be separated as Passengers proceed through Mexican Customs. • Make sure to retain the bottom portion of the form, which serves as your visa while in Mexico. It must be surrendered

at time of check-in for your return flight. Passengers unable to present this form at time of departure will be fined by Mexican Immigration. * Go to cbp.gov to download, fill out, and print this form before your next international flight.

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Route Map

Your Destination Awaits

Plan your next getaway with Freedom Fares® at Southwest.com®. PACIFIC TIME

YOU’RE ON YOUR WAY You can get to a number of other cities via Southwest® destinations. Travel to Santa Fe via Albuquerque, Palm Springs via Ontario/ LA, Galveston via Houston (Hobby), and more. Service between some cities/airports is not offered.

MOUNTAIN TIME

SEATTLE/TACOMA

CENTRAL TIME

SPOKANE

PORTLAND

BOISE

MINNEAPOLIS/ ST. PAUL MILWAUKEE

RENO/TAHOE

DES MOINES

SALT LAKE CITY

SACRAMENTO OAKLAND SAN FRANCISCO (SFO) SAN JOSE

GRAND RAPIDS

CHICAGO (MIDWAY)

OMAHA INDIANAPOLIS DENVER KANSAS CITY

ST. LOUIS

LOUISVILLE

LAS VEGAS WICHITA BURBANK LOS ANGELES (LAX) LONG BEACH

ONTARIO/LA

ALBUQUERQUE

ORANGE COUNTY

NASHVILLE TULSA

AMARILLO

SAN DIEGO

OKLAHOMA CITY PHOENIX

LUBBOCK

TUCSON

MEMPHIS BIRMINGHAM

DALLAS (LOVE FIELD) EL PASO

LIHUE (KAUAI) *COMING SOON

LITTLE ROCK

MIDLAND/ODESSA

HONOLULU (OAHU) AUSTIN

KAHULUI (MAUI) KONA (ISLAND OF HAWAII)

HOUSTON (HOBBY)

HILO (ISLAND OF HAWAII) *COMING SOON

PENSACOLA NEW ORLEANS

SAN ANTONIO CORPUS CHRISTI

HARLINGEN/SOUTH PADRE ISLAND

CABO SAN LUCAS/LOS CABOS

CANCU CANC UN PUERTO VALLARTA

SALT LAKE CITY

Perched atop Capitol Hill, the Inn on the Hill boasts chef-prepared breakfasts, views of Temple Square, and guest rooms named for Utah landmarks.

BELIZE CITY

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“Baltimore is a city on the rise.”

CHARLOTTE

At Haberdish, fried chicken, roasted okra, and pimento cheese are just a few of the Southern gems you’ll find on the menu.

Thrillist

EASTERN TIME ATLANTIC TIME PORTLAND MANCHESTER ROCHESTER

ALBANY

BUFFALO/NIAGARA FALLS

LONG ISLAND/ISLIP NEW YORK (LAGUARDIA) NEW YORK (NEWARK)

DETROIT CLEVELAND

PHILADELPHIA

PITTSBURGH

BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON (BWI)

COLUMBUS CINCINNATI

BOSTON LOGAN PROVIDENCE HARTFORD/SPRINGFIELD

WASHINGTON, D.C. (DULLES) WASHINGTON, D.C. (REAGAN NATIONAL) RICHMOND NORFOLK/VIRGINIA BEACH

CHARLOTTE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG

ATLANTA

CHARLESTON

JACKSONVILLE

PANAMA CITY BEACH

TURKS AND CAICOS

ORLANDO TAMPA FT. MYERS/ NAPLES

WEST PALM BEACH FT. LAUDERDALE (MIAMI AREA)

Just a mile from Grace Bay Beach, Provo Golf Club is the country’s only 18-hole course.

NASSAU

TURKS AND N CAICOS SAN JUAN

HAVANA PUNTA CANA GRAND CAYMAN MONTEGO BAY

ARUBA

LIBERIA

SAN JOSÉ

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY ABACI PHOTO (SALT LAKE CITY); PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF HABERDISH (CHARLOTTE), PROVO GOLF CLUB (TURKS AND CAICOS)

RALEIGH/DURHAM

Plan your visit at Baltimore.org Photo Credit: Mount Vernon Place Conservancy

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One Question

See Christina in The Xperience at the Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood.

Christina Aguilera, It’s such an exciting time to be in Vegas. There’s great history there, and I’ve been able to make the venue space my own creatively. I wanted a Disney-esque sensibility where you’re really taken on a ride. We are giving people an experience for all five senses. It’s not just visual or audio. There’s confetti and scented bubbles. During the song “Candyman,” lollipops are given out. I also brought in Pinar Toprak, the woman who wrote the score for Captain Marvel, to create an entire score for the opening, so it doesn’t just go right into my concert. I recorded myself singing opera over the score. It’s a really fun start. Then there’s songs like “Fighter” and “Beautiful”—the crowd favorites that truly help me connect with fans who’ve been so loyal. Those are special moments.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KAI Z FENG/TRUNK ARCHIVE

what are you doing to make your Las Vegas residency stand out?

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GREAT WINES FOR

HALLOWEEN

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Must be 21 to drink. Enjoy Responsibly.

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