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A Place in Time five stories about making history

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September 2017

64 A Place In Time From the secluded trails that climb Yosemite’s Sing Peak to the halls of Little Rock Central High School, the places that have become a part of us and how we remember them.

Named for Chinese-American chef Tie Sing, Sing Peak has a history often overlooked.

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In Every Issue Gary’s Greeting Saludos de Gary Our Star The A-List Spotlight Community Outreach 24 You Made Our Day 28 From the Editor

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The Dinner Party 55 I learned there are two requirements for attending a meal put on by The Dinner Party: Experience loss, and bring something to eat.

OUR COVER Attendees of the 2017 Sing Peak pilgrimage share a potluck dinner.

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALEX DAVIS (WOMAN), DESIREE ESPADA (TOY), COURTESY OF TOUGH MUDDER (MAN WITH FLAG), ILLUSTRATION BY MARC ASPINALL

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Gary’s Greeting

This month we celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15–Oct. 15), and Mexico will celebrate its Independence Day on Sept. 16. So I couldn’t think of a better opportunity to highlight our efforts to make connections between the United States and our friends south of the border.

After exclusively serving the domestic U.S. for more than 40 years, Southwest broadened our horizon and launched international service in 2014. We now offer service to the U.S. and nine additional countries, with our newest destination on the way this November: Turks and Caicos (subject to requisite government

approvals).

Mexico is a big part of our international story, as we offer service to four Mexican destinations: Cancun, Los Cabos, Mexico City, and Puerto Vallarta.

You might be surprised to learn that on some days of the week, we offer the most flights to Los Cabos, and we’re quickly becoming one of the largest carriers serving Cancun.

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In partnership with Project for Public Spaces, organizers work directly with the local community to create a schedule of meaningful programming and identify a suite of flexible, physical amenities to support a growing amount of activities in the park. Additionally, when you enjoy a cup of Community® Signature Blend coffee onboard our flights, Southwest Airlines and Community Coffee Company will help fund educational programs in Mexico.

Southwest is proud of our growing presence in Mexico, both in the air and on the ground. And if you’re planning your next trip to one of the country’s beautiful beach towns, we’d be more than happy to give you a ride!

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¡Viva México!

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Saludos de Gary

Este mes celebramos el Mes Nacional de la Herencia Hispana (septiembre 15 a octubre 15), y México celebra su Día de Independencia el 16 de septiembre, por lo que no pude encontrar una mejor oportunidad para destacar nuestros esfuerzos para establecer conexiones entre los Estados Unidos y nuestros amigos al sur de la frontera.

Después de operar exclusivamente dentro de los Estados Unidos por más de 40 años, en Southwest ampliamos nuestro horizonte y lanzamos nuestro servicio internacional en 2014. Ahora ofrecemos servicio en los EE.UU. y otros nueve países, y –sujeto a aprobaciones del gobierno extranjero– estamos por estrenar un nuevo destino en noviembre de este año: las Islas Turcas y Caicos.

México forma parte importante de

nuestra historia internacional, pues ofrecemos servicio a cuatro destinos mexicanos: Cancún, Los Cabos, Ciudad de México y Puerto Vallarta. Quizá le sorprenda saber que, en algunos días de la semana, ofrecemos el mayor número de vuelos a Los Cabos, y nos estamos convirtiendo rápidamente en una de las aerolíneas más grandes que vuelan a Cancún.

El Legendario Servicio al Cliente de Southwest, nuestras tarifas bajas, nuestras políticas amistosas y el hecho de que no tenemos cargos ocultos, son muy atractivos para los Clientes que viajan entre los Estados Unidos y México, ya sea por negocios o por placer.

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Además de nuestra creciente presencia en México, también estamos comprometidos con ser un buen vecino y compañero de la comunidad. A través de nuestro programa Corazón de la Comunidad, hemos otorgado una subvención a Lugares Públicos, una organización local que apoya proyectos impulsados por la comunidad en la Ciudad de México.

Lugares Públicos se dedica a trabajar con la comunidad local para crear una visión compartida del Foro Lindbergh, una sección del famoso Parque México, a través de la creación de lugares o placemaking.

En asociación con Project for Public Spaces, los organizadores trabajan directamente con la comunidad local para crear un programa de actividades significativas e identificar una serie de servicios e instalaciones flexibles, para apoyar una cantidad cada vez mayor de actividades en el parque. Además, cuando disfruta de una taza de café Community® Signature Blend a bordo de nuestros vuelos, Southwest Airlines y Community Coffee Company ayudarán a financiar programas educativos en México.

En Southwest estamos orgullosos de nuestra creciente presencia en México, tanto en el aire como en tierra. Y si usted está planeando su próximo viaje a uno de los hermosos destinos de playa del país, ¡nos dará mucho gusto poder llevarlo!

Gary Kelly Presidente de la Junta Directiva y Director Ejecutivo Southwest Airlines

PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEPHEN KELLER

¡Viva México!

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Our Star

“This job is constantly changing. You have to learn to be flexible and adapt.”

—SUSAN DISCH, CUSTOMER REPRESENTATIVE, CUSTOMER SUPPORT & SERVICES When Susan Disch walked into a Southwest Airlines job fair in Phoenix in 1994, she was wearing a suit and nylons despite the July heat. Meanwhile, in true Southwest fashion, Employees were wearing shorts and passing around beach balls. That was when Susan knew she had found a lasting home, and this month, she’s celebrating her 23rd anniversary as a Southwest Employee. A Customer Representative, Susan possesses a true Servant’s Heart and always goes above and beyond to help others. Outside of work, she volunteers for the Arizona Rangers, a local law enforcement support and assist program.

Thanks for your hard work, Susan. We’re glad to have you on board this wild ride! —Sara Shaw, Communication & Outreach COLLECTOR’S ITEM “I have almost all of the Southwest plane pins and a separate Christmas tree just for the Southwest ornaments.”

GAME PL AN “My favorite part of the job is helping Customers. You’ll get someone who’s so excited about their trip, and you’re able to make it happen.”

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The A-List

“Try to have a focus on the needs of others and not yourself.”

—TIMOTHY P. WHITE, CHANCELLOR, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY As chancellor for California State University’s 23-campus system, the largest four-year institution of higher education in the U.S., Timothy P. White is always on the move. Thanks to Southwest’s convenient intra-Cal schedule, he can travel quickly around the Golden State to advocate for the 479,000plus students who make up the CSU student body. Timothy uses his flights for informal networking sessions with fellow business leaders, which allows him to discuss how to help more Californians earn a degree, as well as how to create opportunities for graduates to thrive in business, government, and beyond. Thank you, Chancellor, for your loyalty and your commitment to California’s future leaders!

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Southwest Airlines is committed to connecting People to what’s important in their lives. For our Southwest Cargo Team, we know that what’s most important in our Customers’ lives may actually be flying beneath your feet. You may be surprised to learn the aircraft you’re flying on can play an important role in saving lives across the country. While we ship everything from fresh flowers to seafood, our Cargo Team is also a key logistics piece between patients, doctors, hospitals, and diagnostic testing centers.

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Through our extensive domestic network, we are able to connect People with lifesaving treatments, diagnostic testing, and organ donations faster and more safely than traditional services.

Our award-winning Customer Service, on-time delivery, and problem resolution have earned us the trust of our Customers to handle their most important shipments and deliver lifesaving treatments to the People who depend on them.

While thousands of Customers choose Southwest Cargo for their everyday freight delivery solutions, it brings joy to our Hearts to know that we played a vital role in saving a life.

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Community Outreach

SING ALONG

Musicians On Call Strikes a Chord

This partnership brings the healing power of music to hospital patients.

On the fifth floor of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, guitar chords—followed by applause—echoed throughout the halls as singersongwriter Brooke Eden performed her song “American Dreamin’” for hospital patients and caregivers. Despite their surroundings, patients who heard her performance smiled and even sang along.

Southwest is proud to partner with Musicians On Call, a nonprofit organization that brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients in health care facilities across the country. Through this partnership, musicians have the opportunity to connect with patients through the healing power of music.

“Working with Musicians On Call has been a dream of mine for so long,” Brooke said. “Being able to talk with the patients and share joy through music was an experience I will never forget.”

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This year, in celebration of MTGP’s 10th anniversary, Southwest donated 10,000 round-trip flights to 75 nonprofit hospitals and medical organizations nationwide, with the total impact reaching 100 facilities. Since the program’s inception, more than 59,000 complimentary round trips, valued at more than $23 million, have been distributed to organizations in 28 states. We’re proud to work with a network of hospitals and organizations supporting this mission. To learn more, visit musiciansoncall.org.

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Dear Editor, While flying from Dallas back to San Diego, I was nursing a cold and couldn’t sleep, so I started flipping through the magazine and came upon Michael Mooney’s article about Shovels & Rope [“The Mom & Pop Rock ’n’ Roll Shop,” June 2017]. I had never heard of the band before, but as I read, I found myself delighted and inspired by their story: how they started off as friends, all the years touring in the old van, their success now.

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Cover; Sing Peak / p. 66 Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Kyle felt at home shooting the wilds of Yosemite National Park for this issue. His favorite day trip from Seattle is the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in the Central Cascades for “great hikes and beautiful clear alpine lakes full of trout.” When cooking salmon or trout, the fly-fisherman keeps it simple: “I’m a fan of easy recipes—stuffing the inside with lemon, salt, pepper, and maybe a little butter.” @KJPHOTOS1022

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’ve thought a lot about cheese bread since Julia died.

We were picky eaters as kids—infuriatingly picky, if you ask our moms. We both refused to eat fruit until adulthood and insisted on pizza-no-sauce throughout our childhood.

“Which is just … bread with melted cheese?” asks my husband, Chris. We’re at our favorite pizza place in Austin, where we live. I eat pizza with sauce now, because I’m 30 and get why sauce is a thing, but I’m tempted to order a pizza-no-sauce. It’s not Julia’s birthday; it’s not a holiday; it’s not any particular milestone. I’m just thinking about her, and missing her, and feeling the hollowness of the hole in my heart that I’m sure a chest X-ray would diagnose.

There it is, the cardiologist would say, pointing to a black gap spread across both ventricles. There’s your grief.

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The type of dough is important.

It should be thick and dense, and the cheese should bubble and brown and stretch like taffy when you take a bite from one end and pull the other as far from your mouth as your peach-fuzz arms can extend. Oh, and it should be cut into squares, crusts off.

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I’M ON MY WAY to a stranger’s apartment in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood. It’s my first time at a gathering organized by The Dinner Party, a nonprofit that places 20- and 30-somethings grappling with grief in small dinner party groups. Formed in 2010, the organization has since expanded to 275 tables in nearly 150 cities worldwide. Its website describes the mission best: “We get together over potluck dinners to talk about the ways in which [loss] continues to affect our lives and how to thrive in #lifeafterloss.”

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There are two conditions, as far as I can tell, of attending a dinner party with The Dinner Party. One: Experience earth-shattering loss.

And two: Bring something to eat.

No problem. I haven’t felt like a whole person since Julia died, and I love food. I especially like to turn cold leftovers, congealed inside Tupperware, onto a plate and admire how the food took the form of its container—I call this “shape.”

Despite this, I forgot to eat for the first two weeks after Julia died. Platters lined the counters at Julia’s parents’ house—I think everyone they’d ever met delivered at least one tray of pastries. I remember Julia’s cousin cutting a muffin in two and folding my fingers around the good half, the soft, chocolate chip-studded top.

Food and grief, one of the most consistent pairings in human history.

Do I cook something considered “comfort food” for The Dinner Party dinner party? What the heck is comfort food, when you’re fixating on death? Something that reminds me of her? Or something that does the opposite, that won’t make me and everyone else too sad to eat?

I should’ve made cheese bread.

I torture myself on the hour-long drive to Silver Lake. I’d considered it yesterday while grocery shopping at the Albertsons near our parents’ houses, but ended up in the wine aisle, staring at the shelves of rosé.

What would Julia drink? Or better yet, What would Julia drink while revealing how her death broke the world apart? I picked a rosé bottle with the least peppy label: stars. Stars are fine.

Maybe I’ll tell the strangers I’ll soon meet about how Julia brought a case of rosé to the bachelorette party she threw me, because she knew that was all I’d want to drink while floating in a mineral pool in the desert. Or maybe I’ll tell them about how she’d stand behind the bar at the restaurant she managed and pour me overabundant “tastes”—deep splashes that her family and I call “Julia pours.”

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“I HATE SAYING ‘LOST,’” says Marlana, a 27-year-old songwriter, as she passes a serving dish of cauliflower salad. “Because they didn’t go missing.”

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The six of us sit around the table in our host Alex’s apartment.

It’s spacious and airy, filled with blond wood and whites and creams. We’re all strangers to one another. Some have attended events through The Dinner Party before; others are brand new like me. Everyone is warm and open, equal parts generous in unpacking their most personal stories and in giving the floor to their newfound confidants to do the same.

There’s a lot of “Yes!” And “Oh, my God, totally.” And “Same.” My head soon feels like it belongs to a bobblehead doll. Everything everyone says resonates, and my neck aches from pantomiming the visual cue of “Yes, yes, yes, I feel all of this too, and what a relief not to be so alone.”

Marlana’s sister and brother passed away unexpectedly. Alex, a TV writer, cared for her mom full time in her last months. Juan, a production assistant and the youngest at 22, buried his dad last year. Two women, casting assistant Sara and classical musician Lauren, watched both their parents fall ill and die.

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Tonight, though, I find myself unable to pipe up. My voice shrinks away, like it did when I was a kid at birthday parties, or on the first day of school. If Julia were here, she’d make this spilling-in-front-ofstrangers thing easier. Julia could eviscerate my natural shyness and draw me out in a loud, dynamic group. Julia could make me feel like myself when no one else knew the difference.

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To voicemails, and I think about how I lost Julia’s messages after updating my phone, but the conversation moves …

To how hard we are on the people we know will love us no matter what, and I think about how I hurt Chris when I accused him of not understanding my pain, but the conversation moves …

To seeing our dear departed— and their deaths—everywhere, and how Marlana can no longer eat apples because she was about to eat one when she got the news that her brother had died. I think about the half-bathroom attached to my bedroom. It was there that I answered the phone from Julia’s little sister as I got out of the shower on July 7, 2015. I think about how I haven’t used that bathroom since.

I wish I could plop the congealed contents of my brain onto a plate for the others to note the “shape.”

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Grief is a universal experience that every person will endure at some point; but grief carries a different weight when it hits you young. It just does.

I’ve almost convinced myself that I don’t need to partake in the storytelling to get the full Dinner Party experience, though. Just being in the room, I decide, is enough.

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“I call it a Dead People Party,” Marlana says of events like the one we’re at, and we roar. “My friends are like, ‘You’re so dark and so morbid.’ It’s like, ‘You don’t know!’ I’m allowed!”

The starry-labeled rosé I brought is a hit. So are two bottles of red and a six-pack of beer, and I think a bottle of white makes the rounds too. This is also unanimous: Everyone commends the power of alcohol to make grief more tolerable.

I mumble something about how I wish I were drinking. It’s true, and it’s the longest sentence I’ve uttered in hours. I loathe the phrase “liquid courage” because it’s musty and pompous, but it’s not wrong. Marlana asks if I can’t have one small glass of wine.

“This is really weird,” I say. “But I just found out that I’m pregnant.”

I can’t believe that I spoke. Or that I said this. I’d bought two pregnancy tests at Albertsons along with the wine the day before and chuckled to myself about the purchase combo. EPTs and rosé!

How absurd is existence! Apart from Chris, these five strangers are the first people to learn our news.

They scream. “Congratulations!”

I don’t tell them that we mourned a miscarriage in the fall.

I don’t tell them that we plan to name our kid a “J” name, after Julia. And I don’t tell them that I told Julia the news, in my head, the night before, and that in my imagined memory, she cried. I don’t tell them, because I don’t need to say anything else.

The glee in these strangers’ voices, the smiles spread wide on their faces—it overwhelms me.

“It’s nice to know there’s still life even when there isn’t life,” says Marlana.

And I go back to nodding, because I agree.

Stephie Grob Plante has written for The Atlantic, Racked, and Pacific Standard. Shoot her a note at stephiegrobplante@gmail.com.

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What makes a place? It’s not a red X on a map. It’s not a trailhead marker or a roadside sign. It’s memory and emotion, embedded in us all long after we leave. It’s stories told around tables. It’s happiness; it’s longing. But most of all, place is the history we make together.

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fter popping the seal on a tube of biscuit dough, I poked my thumb into each blob, plopped them into the pan, fried them to a golden brown on the Coleman stove, and rolled them in cinnamon and sugar. The morning air, fresh and cool, promised adventure on our summer vacation. As my husband and 5-year-old twin boys gobbled the camp doughnuts under the pine trees, basking in the smoky scent of campfires, I gazed at Half Dome in Yosemite National Park and thought about Sing Peak in the mountains beyond.

In 1915, Stephen Mather, an assistant Secretary of the Interior and millionaire who made a fortune in borax mining, was lobbying for a single bureau to oversee the national parks. A master of public relations, he dreamed up a 10-day camping trip in the Sierra Nevada, inviting a U.S. Congressman, a filmmaker, National Geographic editor Gilbert H. Grosvenor, and other influential leaders to gain their support.

He tapped a Chinese-American chef named Tie Sing with a vital duty: to provide creature comforts to the campers. Sing was so beloved by U.S. Geological Survey mapmakers that, 16 years earlier, they named the craggy 10,552-foot peak at the southern edge of Yosemite after him. “Give [a man] a poor breakfast after he has had a bad night’s sleep, and he will not care how fine your scenery is,” Mather told a March 1915 conference of park employees, government officials, Sierra Club officers, and concessioners.

Thirty men and 50 horses and mules set off on what came to be known as the Mather Mountain Party. They circled their hands around the General Sherman giant sequoia, the biggest tree in the world, dipped into the icy waters of the Kern River, and climbed up Mount Whitney, the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states—wonders matched only by Sing’s sumptuous meals.

In his memoirs, Mather’s assistant, Horace Albright, devotes line upon line to Sing’s meals, cooked on a portable sheet-metal stove, served on white linen tablecloths and under Japanese lanterns. Dinners of soup, salad, fried chicken, venison and gravy, apple pie, cheese, and coffee.

Breakfasts of hot cakes and maple syrup, eggs, hot rolls, tenderloin steaks, trout and potatoes, honey and biscuits.

A plum pudding with brandy sauce dished up after the men had been soaked by snow, sleet, and rain.

I could relate to Albright’s obsession. When my family camps, meals take on an outsized importance, a reward for our exertions. Hunger is the best sauce, but after I read about Sing’s feasts, our salami and pita sandwiches and boil-in-a-bag Indian meals seemed paltry in comparison.

I admired his ingenuity: To keep meat fresh, he wrapped it in wet newspapers soaked in the icy river. Because the

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decades later, in search of Sing Peak, Jack Shu lost his way. After the trail ended, the retired California State Park superintendent cut across the wilderness, armed with only a compass and a good map.

“Quite often when you’re backpacking, when you get up to the peak, that’s when you can see where you really are,” Shu says. “Down in the meadows, in the brush, it’s hard to know.” He let out a long chuckle. “I got lost going around, and that’s why I know the area well now—why I know all the angles.”

For the last five years, he’s led a pilgrimage to Sing Peak in the hopes of bringing the spotlight to a man exemplifying the many unsung Chinese who helped bring Yosemite into existence, whether by swinging pickaxes to break up rocks through the winter to build Tioga Road, or by manning the kitchens of the park’s finest hotels. The event, sponsored by the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, is marked with days’ worth of interpretive talks and historical presentations throughout Yosemite.

“John Muir, you see him everywhere at Yosemite, but his contributions are one of many,” says Shu, referring to the famed naturalist who fought to preserve the beauty of the region. “We need to talk about the others if we want the full benefit of the park’s legacy.”

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party was on the move, he had no time to raise biscuits next to hot coals. So, each day, he prepared a new batch of dough that he stored next to the mule’s warm body, using the heat to ensure fluffy biscuits by dinner.

He persisted through disasters that would have felled lesser cooks: A mule loaded with fresh lemonade, cantaloupe, sardines, and other delicacies wandered off, never to be found. Another mule fell asleep while walking and tumbled down a 300-foot cliff, sending its load—knives, grapefruits, and more—flying. The mule survived; the sourdough starter did not.

On the final night, Sing had a special send-off for the campers. He made fortune cookies, with messages written in Chinese and English: “Long may you search the mountains”; “The sound of your laughter will fill the mountains when you are in the sky”; and “Where but in the mountains would such a man be spirit with the mountains.”

The chef and philosopher of the Sierras made the trip unforgettable for the campers who widely extolled the majesty of their surroundings and pushed for protections.

Just over a year later, President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service into existence.

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The bond Sing forged with his diners came at a time when Chinese were battling virulent xenophobia and unjust laws. The Chinese Exclusion Act—passed in 1882 and in place for more than 60 years—was America’s first federal moratorium barring immigration based on race and class, banning Chinese laborers and permitting only a trickle of merchants, teachers, students, and their servants to enter. Sing said he was born in Virginia City, Nevada—year unknown—and in those days, because Chinese had limited options for employment, many ended up working laundries, in kitchens, or as laborers.

“We don’t often think about the people who work really hard to make things accessible for us,” says park ranger Yenyen Chan, whose 2011 video segment about the role of Chinese in Yosemite inspired Shu to start the pilgrimage. “Sharing the story of the many different cultures that are part of Yosemite’s history helps people feel a stronger connection to the place.”

Although the National Park Service has long tried to attract visitors from diverse backgrounds, a survey found that 78 percent of visitors are white, 9 percent Latino, 7 percent African-American, and 3 percent Asian-American—lagging far behind the demographics of this country. Those polled said they didn’t visit because they lacked information and were unfamiliar with the national parks; hotel, food, and entrance fees were too high; or the locations were too far from home.

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a bed their ancestors could only dream of. Although we tried camping once, I grew to love the outdoors through the Girl Scouts and school field trips.

“There’s this stereotype that’s been put upon various ethnic groups of not liking the outdoors, but how do you get kids to love nature?” says Shu. “Give them access, and nature will do its own magic.” it’s not easy to get to Sing Peak, and that’s part of its appeal. If you hike on the Pacific Crest Trail or John Muir Trail, those are like freeways, Shu says. The path to Sing Peak, though, is secluded.

There are two routes, which both begin just outside of Yosemite in the Sierra National Forest at the Quartz Mountain Trailhead and at the Fernandez Trailhead.

Both routes take you through stands of pine and fir, open meadows, burbling creeks, and into rocky granite terrain as you gain elevation. After a day’s hike of 6 to 7 miles, you pitch your tent by various alpine lakes, where the trail ends. The next morning, you navigate through the wilderness to Sing Peak, hiking uphill 3 miles to reach the top.

At some points, you may have to get on all fours.

Annette Bay Pimentel, who wrote Mountain Chef, a children’s book about Sing, joined the pilgrimage last year.

She struggled on the peak, as rocks shifted underfoot.

This is crazy. Why am I doing this? she thought part of the way up the mountain. But then it struck her: This was a Tie Sing moment. He faced challenge after challenge, but never gave up. When she reached the top, it was clear, sunny, breezy, and exhilarating; she could see forever.

In the months after my family’s trip to Yosemite Valley, Pimentel’s book captivated my twin boys, who asked if Sing was a real person, or if Sing was a girl (because the illustrations show his hair in a long braid, a traditional queue), and about the discrimination against the Chinese —lessons in history I wished I’d learned as a kid.

“Is Tie Sing still alive?” they asked, snuggled beside me at bedtime.

No, I told them. He died in an accident in 1918, while out in the field.

I reminded the twins of our camping trip, how we floated in the Merced River and hiked to the base of Yosemite Falls, and vowed to myself that, someday, we would make the trek to Sing Peak, too.

Vanessa Hua is the author of Deceit and Other Possibilities. Visit vanessahua.com to send her a note.

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The place where you find love when it comes to how we met, there are two versions of the story. We were living in New York City and had mutual friends—that’s the short one. But if I’ve got a captive audience, I tell the fairy-tale edition.

Once upon a time, I was 23 and living in Brooklyn, a year into my first job and dating a guy in the neighborhood. This guy knew another guy, who lived and worked in New York City but co-owned an inn two hours north, in the Catskills. “Come up anytime,” he said. “Bring a girl!”

So on a sunny Saturday in June, the neighborhood guy whisked me away from the city, up the steep, serpentine road that leads to the mountaintop town of Windham, New York. We pulled in the driveway of a Victorian bedand-breakfast called Catskill Lodge and out walked a handsome young innkeeper.

That weekend I hiked, kicked back around a campfire,

and fell in love—not with the guy who whisked me away but with the guy making the scrambled eggs.

Two years and three months later, I walked down a grassy aisle with him in the backyard of that house.

This month marks eight years of Happily Ever After for us, and six months since we packed up the car, the kid, and the dog for an extended stay at the place where we first met. Now, the handsome young innkeeper and I greet guests together.

There’s a photo of me from the day we got married: I’m in my wedding dress, standing in the octagonal sitting room on the third floor, surrounded by windows overlooking mountain peaks we’ve scaled together. Not long ago, the room was empty, so Dan and I climbed the stairs with our 3-year-old daughter. With the windows wide open, she played with wooden blocks on the floor, and I stopped, breathed the air, and thought about where we’ve been and where we are. This isn’t my fairy tale at all, I realized. It belongs to this place.

Dan and I? Merely a chapter, just like those who came before us.

In 1893, a 28-year-old doctor named Sidney L. Ford returned to these mountains after finishing medical school in the city. He had the house built and lived there with his family until his death in 1945. For the next 40 years, it belonged to the Jacobs family who ran the supermarket down the street. After that, a woman named Mary Lawyer lovingly restored

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the house and began operating it as a bed-and-breakfast. Now, it’s our turn.

We have beds and we have breakfast, but more than that, we’re stewards of a place that so many people have called home— even if just for a weekend. We’ve

hosted weddings, newlyweds, and a couple who announced at breakfast, “We’re getting married in Woodstock today!” We’ve welcomed newborns, grandparents, and those letting go of someone—or something. The most rewarding part of this job? The stories left behind.

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The place where getting there is the reward stitched together from 40 separate roads, La Ruta Panorámica squiggles across Puerto Rico’s middle, from Mayaguez in the west to Yabucoa in the east. Much of the two-lanes-at-best byway runs through the mountains— the name translates to the Panoramic Route—and it’s here where the Ruta earns its Route 66–like mystique as a storied jaunt across the heartland, best suited for people in no hurry. It’s only 165 miles long, but guidebooks recommend taking three days for the full drive.

My own journey on the Ruta came after several days in San Juan, the U.S. territory’s vivacious capital. In search of something a bit more pastoral, I drove an hour south and joined the Ruta near the town of Cayey. The air was cool and still, and I rolled down my windows as I wove through forested inclines, past scattered houses perched by the road and stands selling plantains or spit-roasted pork called lechón, the heady smell perfuming the air.

There were few other cars, aside from a line of about a dozen vintage Volkswagens out for an afternoon cruise.

On the outskirts of the town of Aibonito, I paused to take in the view: a small valley, with rivers and farmland and rolling hills beyond—a homey, cozy sort of splendor. Then I plunged back into the tunnels of jungle, the tapestries of bamboo and yagrumo trees (their leaves large enough to serve as scalloped-edged umbrellas), offset by flares of red and purple and orange flowers. This is the Ruta’s pattern: vista, jungle, vista, jungle.

I spent two days crossing the middle section of the Ruta, and quickly learned that although the road rarely passes through any towns, there are plenty just a few minutes off the road, along with assorted offbeat attractions and historic sites, detours I came to understand as essential parts of the drive. The highest mountain on the island, in Toro Negro State Forest.

El Navideño, a hotel with an extravagant Christmas theme. Back near Cayey, Monumento al Jíbaro Puertorriqueño, a statue honoring the island’s iconic jíbaros, hardworking people of the mountains.

And in tiny Barranquitas, the birthplace of Luis Muñoz Rivera, an early leader the of Puerto Rican autonomy movement—the small house is now a museum featuring the 1912 Pierce-Arrow motorcycle that served as his hearse.

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Across the street from Casa Luis MuĂąoz Rivera, I found a small cafĂŠ for dinner. The chef serenaded me with Bob Dylan songs and spun tales about his town and the surrounding mountains: the storied past, the colorful characters, the quiet beauty. In the morning, exhilarated and eager to see what wonders and encounters awaited, I headed back to the Ruta and pressed onward.

Doug Mack lives in Minneapolis.

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The place where dreams become reality when i was 10 years old, I had a recurring dream about going through a tunnel. It was big and see-through, plunging through floors, snaking through tree houses, corkscrewing in and out of oblivion and seeming to go on forever. Sometimes the passageway deposited me in a room full of giant ramps and slides and broken-down machinery. Though the dream felt vaguely dangerous, it wasn’t a nightmare. I usually woke up exhilarated, as if some unexplored corner of my brain had been tweaked in

a way I couldn’t explain. Eventually the dreams stopped.

Recently, I was on vacation with my wife and kids in St. Louis, my mind fuzzed over from years of diaper duty and budget meetings.

My wife had heard about City Museum from a friend, but we arrived knowing almost nothing about it. Before we entered, I saw children crawling through an outdoor metal mesh tunnel toward the fuselage of a gutted airplane dangling five stories overhead. Then I saw twisted shards of Technicolor metal jutting from an old office building like some massive disaster that had never been cleaned up, and . . . Lord, is that a school bus hanging off the roof?

As my brain sparked with nebulous electricity and fumbled through the most elusive déjà vu of my life, it finally hit me: My dreams had come to life. In a

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warehouse in downtown St. Louis.

The feeling was disorienting but also strangely comfortable—like an old song I had forgotten but still knew all the words to.

The surreal interior of the 600,000-square-foot building appeared to have been plucked straight from my visual cortex.

Tunnels under the floor. Ginormous slides to nowhere. Suspended metal tubes snaking through hollow logs, en route to other floors and thrills. I gaped at a giant pipe organ, a castle turret, a bank vault, and a human hamster wheel. Thousands of kids and adults, some clad in headlamps and knee pads, had advanced beyond the gawking phase and were scurrying to and fro like giddy mice, popping out from holes in the wall, giggling.

For an adventurous child who wants nothing more than to ditch his parents for a few hours, City Museum is as close to heaven as you can get. I overheard a joyous negotiation between two ampedup teenage boys—both of whom looked like they generally found the whole world to be an unbearable drag—that ended with a pact to do the giant ball pit, then the Enchanted Caves, and then the room full of robots.

My own exploration felt equally electrifying and frustrating. On one hand, I was living out my dream, climbing through a human Slinky-like tube from a beer tank at Anheuser-Busch. On the other, that dream hurt like hell. If my

brain was suddenly 9 years old again, my body was still in its 40s, and the place’s libertarian approach toward safety meant constant bumps and scrapes. Once, I found myself stuck in a dark tunnel, and it took a good five minutes to Houdini my body out.

Here, even the most responsible of adults struggle to monitor their offspring; in my own dazed wanderlust, I forgot my children entirely. I sent my 6-year-old son down a slide with no idea what was at the bottom, and then wandered off with no maps, no signs, and no destination. Eventually, my son popped up at the circus trapeze class on the third floor, no worse for the wear and full of breathless tales of the world’s largest pair of underpants.

For a museum, there’s not much traditional learning going on; it’s more unhinged, unscripted adventure. That was the whole idea when Bob Cassilly conceived the place in the ’90s. An eccentric sculptor obsessed with repurposing ordinary objects, Cassilly envisioned a giant fun house made of found and recycled items, the kind of place where anything fun (say, a 3,000-pound steel praying mantis) was fair game. Then he and his crew built it. The place has continued adding on and getting weirder, even after Cassilly’s suspicious 2011 death in a bulldozer on the site of an amusement park he was building in north St. Louis.

After four hours, I finally reached my destination: the opening to a slide that spiraled down, down, down, all the way to the first floor, back to where my family—and adulthood—waited. I breathed it all in one last time, the aroma of tacos and slushies, the yelps of kids scampering across the giant splash pond, the rare childhood dream that was better in reality. Then I sighed and hurled myself down.

x City Museum (top); a visitor makes her way across a splash pond.

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years went by, it turned out she was not quite done with Little Rock.

And Little Rock was not quite done with her.

Webber finishes her talk and asks if anyone has questions. One young man raises his hand and turns toward Sybil.

“Could you tell us how it was, your experience?” he asks.

Sybil takes a breath and stands.

She walks to the front of the room.

She tells her story.

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he woman slips into the back of the auditorium at Little Rock Central High School. She’s just there for a quick visit, but it turns out a National Park Service ranger is giving a tour to a group of kids from East St. Louis, Illinois. The park ranger, Toni Webber, nods as the woman takes her seat.

“We have a very special guest in the auditorium today,” Webber says.

The woman listens as Webber outlines the story the woman knows as well as anyone alive. How nine black students—now known as the Little Rock Nine—integrated this high school in 1957. How President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in the 101st Airborne to protect the nine children from angry segregationists. How TV broadcasts and newspapers sent the story around the world. How the Arkansas governor, Orval Faubus, closed every high school in Little Rock the next year rather than let black and white students learn together. How the federal government forced the schools to reopen in 1959. How five black students enrolled at Little Rock Central that year, including a single 10th-grader: a 15-year-old girl named Sybil Jordan.

Sybil Jordan. Now, Sybil Jordan Hampton. The woman in the back of the room.

Sybil became the first black student to attend Central for all three years and graduate. That was 55 years ago. She left town thinking she would never look back. But as the

the moments are so clear in her mind because there were so few of them.

In three years at Little Rock Central, one white student talked to her —an exchange student from France who could not understand why no one else was speaking to Sybil.

Two other students interacted with her. One day, a football player kicked her in the bandaged knee she had hurt in gym class. Another day, a different boy saved up his saliva and spat in her face at the top of the stairs.

Beyond that, nothing.

At the beginning, the halls parted when she walked through.

Oftentimes, she would hear the N-word as she went from class to class. But otherwise the 2,000 white students at Central acted as if she did not exist. Cameras had followed the Little Rock Nine everywhere, but Sybil spent her days alone in the crowd. She called herself Casper because she felt like a ghost. It never made her angry. Every day it made her sad.

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to choose a Bible passage and read it to the class. Every time it was her turn, she chose the 121st Psalm.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help…

Over and over, she sent her classmates a message: You can ignore me every day if you want. I’m playing a longer game.

Her parents, Leslie and Lorraine Jordan, had raised her and her brother, Les, to be independent. By the time she was 6, she had a paper route for the Arkansas State Press, the black newspaper whose co-publisher, Daisy Bates, later mentored the Little Rock Nine.

Sybil helped out at Kid’s Grocery, the store her family ran at Seventh and Park, climbing a stool to work the cash register. She rode the city bus downtown alone to pay the family’s bills. She learned not to drink much before she went somewhere because she didn’t know if there would be a colored restroom.

She remembered what her mother and father told her: When you walk outside this house, you may not encounter anyone who loves you. Yet, you carry the love we have for you in your heart always.

Her neighborhood was as close to mixed as Little Rock got back then. There was a white grocery store on the adjacent corner, families of both races in between, and the kids played together before they were old enough to head off to school. Sybil saw the white wholesalers who treated her family with respect when they came to sell goods to the store. She watched her parents help a white family who struggled when the husband went into the military. But when it came time for school, the black kids went one way and the white kids another.

The white kids eventually ended up at Little Rock Central. It was built in 1927, an art deco/Gothic colossus that stretched two city blocks. A national architects’ group named it

the most beautiful high school in America. It was also one of the best academically. Black families wanted in.

Sybil knew most of the Little Rock Nine and their families. Some of them went to Bethel AME Church, where the Jordans attended. It sounds strange now, but there wasn’t a whole lot of talk about the Little Rock Nine at church or at the Jordan home. People had decided to give the families some space and try to make their lives as normal as they could. But there was no doubt that, when the time came, Sybil would try to enroll at Central. When she was at Dunbar Junior High, the school system ran a group of black children through psychological tests, looking for the smartest and the strongest to be admitted to Central.

(White kids attending Central didn’t have to go through any psychological tests.) Either way, Sybil passed. She heard later that some kids, when they saw a particular inkblot on a Rorschach test, said it looked like a lynching. She doesn’t remember what she saw. But she didn’t see that.

The state of Arkansas fought to the end. Two of the original Little Rock Nine returned to school when it reopened in August 1959—the other seven had either graduated or moved. But the school system refused to admit any new black students. Only after the NAACP appealed did the school board allow in three more students, including Sybil.

They started three weeks after everyone else.

She was nervous the night before her first day; she was placed in the 10th grade, with no other black classmates.

She was also 15, and no one feels normal at 15. But on top of that, no one knew how white Little Rock would react.

Someone had bombed two public buildings and the fire chief’s car just the week before. People knew where Sybil and her family lived. She couldn’t just get up and go to school. She had to stand for her race and walk into history.

Her parents came into her room and prayed with her

x Sybil’s induction into the National Junior Honor Society in 1958 (left); before a piano recital in 1951

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acted was not about her. She told Sybil: Don’t say they don’t like you.

They don’t know you. If they really had an opportunity to know you, they would love you. That carried her through.

x Sybil receiving her diploma at Little Rock Central High School graduation in 1962

that night. They told her they didn’t believe any harm would come to her. They told her to trust God. They told her they loved her. She went to sleep and woke up ready.

“Things make me nervous,” she says. “But I’ve been taught to forge ahead, gently but firmly.”

The next morning, it was quiet in front of Little Rock Central. No protesters, just a few reporters. Sybil walked up the concrete steps, past the National Guard troops stationed there to protect her.

She opened the door and stepped into three years of silence.

The smallest kindnesses mattered. When that football player kicked her, and that other boy spit in her face, a vice principal comforted her. A French teacher and a social studies teacher spoke with her the way they might with any other student. At lunch every day, the black cafeteria workers gave her a wink or a few kind words.

Away from school, she lived a normal life. She was a Girl Scout. She took piano lessons. She hung out with kids from Horace Mann, the black high school. She thinks of her life as a quilt, and she remembers those days as a series of leaps from square to square. It shocked her that the white students at Central would treat her as if she were “something that was not desirable, something that was not human.”

But they didn’t change how she saw herself.

Her mother always reminded her that the way they

on may 20, 1962, Sybil got her diploma. Graduation was held at Quigley Stadium, where the school’s football team played. She had never been in the stadium before. She couldn’t go to football games, the same way she wasn’t allowed to play on any of Central’s teams or join any clubs. But they had to let her go to class, and she graduated with honors—one of 52 in her class of more than 500. She remembers a wolf whistle as she crossed the stage, and somebody hollering, “There goes Black Beauty.”

For most, graduation is a celebration. For Sybil, it was a relief.

She attended Earlham College, a small school in Indiana. When she and her parents got there, a group of students met them at the car and said, “Welcome to Earlham, Sybil Jordan!” Sybil was thrilled. She found out later they did this for every freshman, but: They knew her name, and they were glad to see her.

She got a bachelor’s degree in English literature. Then a master’s in elementary education from the University of Chicago. Then a second master’s and a doctorate from Columbia University. Along the way, she spent a summer program in Japan, got an externship working with migrant workers in New Jersey, taught elementary school in Chicago. She went on to work in academic administration at Iona College in New York, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Southwestern University in Texas. So many white people had questioned whether Sybil and other black students would bring down the quality of Little Rock Central. Her résumé is her answer.

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Leading the foundation was, in Sybil’s mind, the best job in the state.

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Sybil came home.

She led the foundation for 10 years, leading projects on entrepreneurship and funding for public education. The foundation put together a study of immigrant families, and helped build an exhibit of Japanese internment camps in Arkansas during World War II. She retired in 2006 to take care of her mother, who had Alzheimer’s.

(Lorraine Jordan died in 2015.)

When she was a girl, she always wanted to live downtown because she thought that would be proof that she had arrived in the world— as a child, only whites owned those old homes. So she and Alfred live in a house downtown. She had always admired the grand old Mount Holly Cemetery, and now she serves as the president of the cemetery’s board of directors. Three years ago, the attorney general appointed her to the state Ethics Commission.

Recently, the commission took up the case of whether Jerry Jones, who grew up in Arkansas and now owns the Dallas Cowboys, unintentionally violated a state ethics law by giving free tickets and trips to North Little Rock police officers.

She ruled with the majority that he had. This did not make her especially popular with Cowboys fans.

Now, when she walks into the historic Capital Hotel—a place where she never felt she belonged as a child—the white doorman knows her by name. She has dined at the governor’s mansion, taken membership at the exclusive Little Rock Club, been given access to the city’s

She has shown all of Little Rock what one black woman can offer. sat with them. And one by one, other classmates came to Sybil and apologized. Some told her they had no idea what she had gone through.

Does she believe that they didn’t know?

She pauses.

“This is what I’m going to say to you,” she says. “I believe that it is very difficult for people to take ownership of choices. When people say that to me, I accept that. I don’t box with it. I know that they are saying the best thing they feel they can say.”

That night, the reunion ended with a sock hop. The music started and Hughes asked her to dance. Out on the floor, somebody else cut in.

Then another and another. Sybil danced with her classmates until it was time to go home.

She and Hughes have been friends ever since. “When I see her these days, she comes up and gives me a big smack on the lips,” Hughes says. “It makes me feel so happy.

And undeserving.”

Sybil kept coming back to Little Rock to see her parents. She saw the city changing for the better, but she thought there were still more chances for black men than black women. Then, in 1996, she was invited to apply for the job as president of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. The foundation— which grew from a charitable trust created by Rockefeller, a former

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In turn, she has shown them— and all of Little Rock—what one black woman can offer.

She wonders sometimes how her life would have been different if she hadn’t gone to Central. “I think that it’s fair to say that I would’ve had a good life and would have gone on to excel, because I was already on a good track,” she says. “But I would say that I have been in places that were incredible places that I probably would not have been because of the experiences I had at Central that made me not be afraid to quest for excellence, and not be afraid to go to places that were intimidating to me.”

This year is the 60th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine, and the city is holding commemorative events all year. The big one is in late September. Former President Bill Clinton, whose presidential library is in Little Rock, will be among the guests. The ceremony will be held at Quigley Stadium—the place where, back in 1962, Sybil grabbed her diploma and got out as quickly as she could. This time, they are talking about having her serve as emcee.

She has won the long game.

One of the hardest things for a child to accept is the idea of delayed gratification. But for Sybil, the short term was devastating. The only hope was down the road. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help…

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“You rarely hear anything about the foot soldiers, and that’s OK,” she says to the group in the auditorium. “Some of you will do wonderful things in your lives that nobody will know anything about, and that’s OK. Because the important thing is that we all do our part in order to make the world a kinder, gentler, fairer place.”

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If you’re traveling with a pet, you can’t sit in an exit row seat. Pet carriers must fit under the seat in front of you.

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We’re continuing to add new, spacious seats across our fleet of 737s. Getting there just got more comfortable.

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

Although you can form lines at the back lavatory, you cannot form lines at the front lavatory or gather in the front galley.

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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. En los vuelos internacionales, todos los PEDs deben permanecer apagados mientras el avión avanza por la pista, durante el despegue y el aterrizaje en aeropuertos fuera de los EE. UU. y sus territorios. Por favor usa auriculares para cualquier sonido o video.

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Never Permitted Nunca pueden

Electronic nerve stimulators and other implanted medical devices are also permitted. Dispositivos de estimulación electrónica de los nervios y otros aparatos médicos

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 (WalkieTalkies) or Scanners Radios emisores/receptores (walkie-talkies)

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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.

implantados también son permitidos.

Electronic Watches Relojes electrónicos

Pacemakers Marcapasos

Noise-Canceling Headphones Auriculares que aislan el ruido

Hearing Aids Aparatos para sordos Electric Shavers Rastrillo eléctrico DISABILITY ASSISTANCE

Southwest Airlines offers assistance to Customers with disabilities upon request. Southwest Airlines siempre ofrece asistencia para sus Clientes con discapacidades que así lo soliciten.

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) additional personal item. El límite es de una (1) maleta por persona y un (1) artículo personal.

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.

usarse dentro del avión

All pets must stay inside their carriers and under the seat for the duration of the flight. Todas las mascotas deben permanecer dentro de sus jaulas y debajo del asiento durante todo el vuelo.

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

Customers are prohibited from consuming alcoholic beverages not purchased onboard.

Alcoholic beverages will not be served to

Electronic Cigarettes and Smoking Devices Cigarrillos electrónicos y dispositivos para fumar

Television or AM/FM Radio Receivers Televisión o radios de AM/FM Remote-Controlled Toys Juguetes de control remoto Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone 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.

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Inflight Entertainment

Getting Connected

Our entertainment portal is filled with exciting inflight options— from free live TV to exclusive content—for you to enjoy.

Our portal has a new look.

Whether you want to catch your favorite TV show or need a restaurant recommendation, we’ve got you covered.

®

HOW TO CONNECT: SOUTHWESTWIFI.COM*

Handheld Devices

Tap the Settings icon, and then choose the WiFi icon. Turn WiFi On with On/Off button.

Tap SouthwestWiFi in the list of WiFi networks and confirm connection. Open your internet browser.

Our entertainment portal should load automatically. If not, click the address bar and type in Southwestwifi.com.

Select your entertainment option and enjoy.

Laptops

Click the WiFi icon.

Select SouthwestWiFi from the list of WiFi networks by clicking on it and confirm connection. Open your internet browser.

Our entertainment portal should load automatically. If not, click the address bar and type in Southwestwifi.com.

Select your entertainment option and enjoy.

* WiFi available only on WiFi-equipped aircraft.

MORE INFORMATION:

• 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.

• Movies and select TV content require download of the free AirTime Player app.

• Pricing information can be found on the Inflight

Entertainment Portal.

• In order to provide top-notch web browsing capabilities to all Customers using WiFi, we limit access to the following online activities due to high bandwidth consumption: telephony

applications (VoIP), device/ system/software updates, and certain video/audio streaming subscription services, applications, and web sites.

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Beverages

Leinenkugel’s Oktoberfest

THIS ONE’S ON US Business Select® Customers receive a free premium drink† on the day of travel.

RING IN FALL with this Märzen-

style beer. Available through October, it touts a toasted malt flavor and subtle hints of hops.

Up your experience by visiting Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, where you can see how the brewery has grown since its founding in 1867 by Jacob Leinenkugel, whose family immigrated from Meckenheim, Germany, in 1845. Prost!

COMPLIMENTARY BEVERAGES

• Coca-Cola® • Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar • Diet Coke® • Sprite® • Sprite Zero™ • 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 • Tomato Juice

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

* Regular and hazelnut creamer available

LIQUOR $5

• • • • •

Dewar’s® Scotch Jack Daniel’s® Wild Turkey® Tanqueray® Gin Bacardi® Rum

BEER $5

• Bud Light® • Miller Lite® • Dos Equis® Special Lager • Leinenkugel’s® Oktoberfest • Fat Tire®

• Baileys® Irish Cream • Deep Eddy® Vodka • Sauza® Gold Tequila WINE $5

• Carmenet Cabernet Sauvignon • St Roc Sparkling Wine • Whistling Thorn Chenin BlancChardonnay

† 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 Airlines 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 same-day use only. Valid Rapid Rewards and Business Select drink coupons will be accepted onboard for beer, wine, and liquor.

Expires Dec 31, 2017

RECYCLING

We’re happy to take care of any recyclable items, including plastic bottles, coffee cups, newspapers, and food containers.

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Products and Services

Need a hand? Southwest can help you when ...

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Southwest is proud to be the official airline of the Baltimore Ravens. See their season opener on Sept. 10.

GRIDIRON GLORY

... you can’t wait for the season to start. Southwest Airlines is the official airline sponsor of Texas Athletics and the Texas Exes. The UT football season kicks off on Sept. 2 and the game is presented by Southwest Airlines.

Southwest also partners with the College Football Hall of Fame, located in Atlanta and established in 1951.

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At Southwest Airlines, we believe in empowering the next generation to achieve their career goals. One of the ways we do that is by passing along the lessons we’ve learned along the way. We are proud to partner with GenHERation, and next week, we’ll welcome a group of talented young women to our Headquarters for Discovery Days. These young women will hear about what some of our women Leaders have learned throughout their careers. Captain Nicole Alicea shares how studying hard in science and math can give you a view you can’t find in any other career!

... you need some advice.

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Southwestair community.com

... YOU WANT TO BE ON ISL AND TIME.

Southwest service to Turks and Caicos begins on Nov. 5, pending government approval.

… you’re on the clock. Business Select® Passengers are guaranteed A1-15 boarding, receive a premium drink, and earn extra Rapid Rewards points. Southwest.com/businessselect SEPTEMBER 2017 SOUTHWEST

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Rapid Rewards

Earn 60,000 Points

Ready for your next trip? This limited time offer can help you get there faster. With the Rapid Rewards® Credit Card, you’ll earn 60,000 points after you spend $2,000 on purchases in the first three months of opening your account.

Visit Southwest.com/applytoday. Offer expires Oct. 4, 2017.

Accounts subject to credit approval. Restrictions and limitations apply. Southwest Rapid Rewards® Credit Cards are issued by Chase Bank USA, N.A. Offer subject to change. See Southwest.com/applytoday for pricing and rewards details. All Southwest Rapid Rewards® rules and regulations apply; please visit Southwest.com/rrterms.

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COMPANION PASS

Every time you purchase a flight or redeem points for a flight, Companion Pass lets you choose one person to fly free* with you for an entire calendar year. Southwest.com/ CPstatus * Does not include taxes and fees from $5.60 oneway. Visit Southwest. com/rrterms for a complete list of Companion Pass rules.

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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.

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 2 points per $1 spent on Southwest® and Rapid Rewards® partner purchases.

On all other purchases, you’ll earn 1 point per $1 spent.

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Go International

Insider’s Punta Cana Southwest serves a host of international

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destinations, including the vibrant Punta Cana.

SOUTHWEST VACATIONS® SWEEPSTAKES Visit Southwestvacations.com/winpuj to enter for a chance to win round trip air travel on Southwest for you and one guest to Punta Cana International Airport; four-night accommodations at Excellence Punta Cana; all-inclusive meals, beverages, and entertainment; and round trip airport/hotel transfers.*

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

No

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

No No No No No

Yes

No

(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

No

(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

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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.

(c) State

5 Passport issued by (country)

8 Countries visited on this

2

Date of birth

Day

Month

Year

Passport number

2

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

3

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.”

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MACAO BEACH

Punta Cana is home to miles and miles of coast.

Relax at Macao Beach, a 3.2-mile long stretch, where you can dip your toes in the water or grab a surfboard and hang 10.

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HOYO AZUL A trip to Scape Park, a natural theme park located in Cap Cana Resort, gives you the chance to tour the picturesque cenote. If you’re feeling adventurous, you can also brave the park’s zip line.

ALTOS DE CHAVÓN Step back in time at this replica 16th-century Mediterranean village. Visit the archaeological museum and St. Stanislaus Church, and browse wares made by local artisans.

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Approximate retail value of prize: $3,250. For complete details and Official Rules, visit Southwestvacations.com. 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. Sponsor: The Mark Travel Corporation/Southwest Vacations, 8969 N. Port Washington Road, Milwaukee, WI 53217. Enter by September 30, 2017 11:59 p.m. CST. *Government-imposed per passenger travel taxes of up to $150 per person are not included and are payable by each of winner and guest prior to travel.

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

Planning your next getaway? Choose from more than 100 destinations— including our international cities. It’s a snap at Southwest.com.

PACIFIC TIME MOUNTAIN TIME

SEATTLE/TACOMA

CENTRAL TIME

SPOKANE

PORTLAND

BOISE

MINNEAPOLIS/ ST. PAUL

GRAND RAPIDS MILWAUKEE

RENO/TAHOE

DES MOINES

SALT LAKE CITY

SACRAMENTO OAKLAND SAN FRANCISCO (SFO)

CHICAGO (MIDWAY)

OMAHA INDIANAPOLIS

SAN JOSE

DENVER KANSAS CITY

ST. LOUIS

LOUISVILLE

LAS VEGAS WICHITA BURBANK LOS ANGELES (LAX) LONG BEACH

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. * Service to Varadero and Santa Clara will be discontinued on Sept. 5. ** Service to Turks and Caicos begins Nov. 5, pending government approvals.

ONTARIO/LA

ALBUQUERQUE

ORANGE COUNTY

NASHVILLE TULSA

AMARILLO

SAN DIEGO

OKLAHOMA CITY PHOENIX

LITTLE ROCK

LUBBOCK

TUCSON

MEMPHIS

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EL PASO

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PANAMA CIT

NEW ORLEANS

SAN ANTONIO CORPUS CHRISTI

FT. MYERS/N

HARLINGEN/SOUTH PADRE ISLAND

CABO SAN LUCAS/LOS CABOS

CANCU CANC UN PUERTO VALLARTA

SAN JOSE

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MEXICO CITY BELIZE CITY

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THE SMARTER WAY TO DATE

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EASTERN TIME ATLANTIC TIME PORTLAND MANCHESTER ROCHESTER FLINT DETROIT

ALBANY

BUFFALO/ NIAGARA FALLS

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

CLEVELAND

PHILADELPHIA

PITTSBURGH

BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON (BWI)

COLUMBUS CINCINNATI

BOSTON LOGAN PROVIDENCE HARTFORD/SPRINGFIELD

WASHINGTON, D.C. (DULLES) WASHINGTON, D.C. (REAGAN NATIONAL) RICHMOND

RALEIGH/DURHAM CHARLOTTE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG

ATLANTA

CHARLESTON

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JACKSONVILLE

NASHVILLE

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WEST PALM BEACH FT. LAUDERDALE (MIAMI AREA)

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ARUBA

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Farrell C. Tyson, MD Other locations: Ft. Myers, Bonita & Cape Coral, FL 239-542-2020 TysonEye.com Gulfshore Business – 40 Under 40

PHOENIX Craig R. Cassidy, DO 160 W. University Drive Mesa, AZ 480-610-1252 ArizonaLasik.com

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LOS ANGELES Jeffrey C. Hong, MD 800 S. Fairmount Avenue Pasadena, CA 626-844-7001 HuntingtonEye.com

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Daniel S. Durrie, MD 8300 College Boulevard Overland Park, KS 913-491-3330 DurrieVision.com Castle Connolly – Top Doctors

ATLANTA Milan R. Patel, MD 6300 Hospital Parkway Johns Creek, GA 678-381-2020 MilanEyeCenter.com Castle Connolly – Top Doctors

ST. LOUIS Jason P. Brinton, MD 555 N. New Ballas Road St. Louis, MO 314-375-2020 BrintonVision.com

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Dr. Farrell C. Tyson Naples, FL

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RALEIGH-DURHAM Dean Dornic, MD 3701 NW Cary Pkwy., Cary, NC 919-467-9955 VisionAuthorities.com Castle Connolly – Top Doctors

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DOCTORS IN AMERICA Each doctor has been peer-nominated and selected by the nation’s leading providers of information on top doctors.

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INFERTILITY & IN VITRO FERTILIZATION Alfred J. Rodriguez, MD 6130 West Parker Road Plano, TX 972-981-7800 TexasIVF.com D Magazine – Top Doctors Issue

NEUROLOGICAL & SPINE SURGERY Rob D. Dickerman, DO 6130 West Parker Road Plano, TX 972-238-0512 NeuroTexas.com D Magazine – Top Doctors Issue

SAN DIEGO

HAIR TRANSPLANTATION Richard Chaffoo, MD 9850 Genesee Avenue La Jolla, CA 866-830-7550 LaJollaSkin.com Castle Connolly – Top Doctors

LOS ANGELES

PLASTIC SURGERY Mark A. Anton, MD Face, Breast & Body Surgery 361 Hospital Road Newport Beach, CA 949-722-1967 AntonAesthetics.com Castle Connolly – Top Doctors

PHOENIX

COSMETIC & RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY Joyce Bassett, DDS 14275 N. 87th Street Scottsdale, AZ 480-367-8889 DrBassett.com USA Top Dentists Directory

ST. LOUIS

Dr. Alfred J. Rodriguez Infertility and In Vitro Fertilization

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FACIAL PLASTIC SURGERY L. Mike Nayak, MD 607 S. Lindbergh Boulevard St. Louis, MO 314-991-LIFT (5438) NayakPlasticSurgery.com

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LOCANDA DEL LAGO 231 Arizona Avenue - 310.451.3525 "Don't miss the Ossobuco alla Milanese"–Gourmet, "There's no better place to people-watch than at the outdoor patio"–Frommers. Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, 2015. www.lagosantamonica.com

Ft. Lauderdale / Boca Raton, FL CASA D’ANGELO Boca Raton: 171 East Palmetto Park Rd. - 561.338.1703 Ft. Lauderdale: Sunrise Square Plaza, 1201 N. FederalHwy. - 954.564.1234 Wine Spectator Best Award of Excellence, 2015.

Zagat America's Top Restaurants, 2015. Rated as not only one of the best Italian restaurants in Florida, Casa D'Angelo has also been recognized in the industry as one of America's finest Italian restaurants. www.casa-d-angelo.com I created Casa D’Angelo with recipes handed down to me from generations of passionate Italian cooks— like Mama Elia. Over the years, I have added my own touches and even created a few new recipes, all with the goal of giving you a truly authentic yet modern taste of my homeland. I look forward to greeting you personally at one of my tables soon.–Chef Angelo Elia.

Chicago / Downtown Italian Village RestaurantsVisit Italy right in Chicago THE VILLAGE - 312.332.7005 71 W. Monroe Street Chicago's Oldest Family Italian Restaurant–Al Capone was a regular. Guests dine in cozy nooks designed like a small Italian town. Celebrating our 88th anniversary this year. www.italianvillage-chicago.com LA CANTINA - 312.332.7005 A premier Italian Steak and Chop House VIVERE - 312.332.4040 A contemporary restaurant featuring "new" Italian cuisine from all regions of Italy. 2015 Wine Spectator Top Ten Italian Restaurants, 2015 DiRona Award, 2015 Wine Enthusiasts Ultimate Distinction Award.

Tampa, FL - DONATELLO 232 North Dale Mabry - 813.875.6660 An Old World bliss in the heart of Tampa serving authentic Italian Cuisine since 1984. Every night Guido and Gino Tiozzo welcome you at the door and every lady will leave Donatello with a rose on her hand as a thanks for being there. You’ll see for yourself that hospitality has ancient roots at Donatello.

Full Bar, Piano Lounge, Private Rooms. Wine Spectator Award 15 consecutive years, 2000-2015.

Editor’s Note: The Finest in Tampa Bay.. Try the Filet Mignon, it’s over the top! www.donatellotampa.com

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