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Buy a Subaru and you make the statement of I am an ECO Warrior is one of the two statements that is how they are seen here in the PNW. LOL

I've never been to Austin..but heard good things about the food and music scene there. About the only place in Texas I've spent a few days in is Plano, and that's been for work. So much sprawl around the DFW area. I had an interview and job offer in Addison 25 years ago, but decided to move to Denver instead (was living in Colorado Springs at the time).

I can't believe I'm writing this. I'm purging random paper stuff I find in my luggage and I found a Subaru Legacy brochure from when I walked into a dealership right before Christmas. This was in another area where I was visiting a childhood friend, but I didn't say I was from out of town. Of course, the salesman wants to get my information and all that, and I declined, saying I'm just looking. The Chevy Malibu is now gone. The Legacy is supposed to wind things down I don't like Kia, Hyundai, Nissan and Mazda ICE products much. I think they could have done a nicer job with the new Camry, but, the plus is that Camrys will now only be hybrids. As much as I dislike and make fun of Subaru wagons, a Legacy (Limited) sedan in dark metallic blue with a tan cloth interior would be a nice little sedan to putt around in that doesn't make any sociopolitical statements. Yes, it is the ONLY one of their products I like and it is ending production fairly soon. This is sort of what, in marketing parlance, would be called "market push" instead of "market pull," even though I don't think this fits those definitions neatly. They want to "push" what they offer onto consumers instead of having consumers "pulled" in by what attracts them to vehicles. My 2 cents. I'm scratching my head.

I remember Allegiant used to fly in and out of Mesa Gateway Airport instead of Sky Harbor in the Phoenix area. Never flown them. I flew Frontier a lot when I lived in Colorado (they were Denver based 20 years ago), flew Southwest a lot then and when I lived in Arizona. I've flown very little since moving back to Ohio in 2017, doing more road trips than flying. I like Delta and American.

I know. Their presence in the PNW almost borders on conformity. I've got a great flip-off story between Bellingham and Burlington on I-5. I was with a friend coming back from VanCity. I wouldn't relay here it without the visuals and enough detail. We laughed our asses off. This was the late '90s. That was a good decade.

Sadly....(not really sad about this...)

They are one of the only brands I would consider now.

Much better choice. Texans themselves like moving to Colorado more than the other way around from what I can glean from reading and talking to people.

As long as they bundle bags, seating, etc., it's fine. Frontier is still prominently seen at Denver, with big hangars and stuff like that. They and Spirit have these "clubs" you belong to to access lower fares and add-ons ... more clutter than I want for my inbox and my mind.

I remember reading she lived in Austin, Tx for a while in the 70s, knew Stevie Ray Vaughan when he was an up and coming guitarist in the local music scene there...a lot of great blues musicians came out of Texas.

Allegiant is out of Las Vegas as a headquarters. They have a weird route system that is good for people who can use those point to point routes. They also use secondary airports, like Clearwater-St. Pete instead of Tampa. I've never flown on them nor on Frontier. I flew on Spirit once and it was fine. My Big 3 rankings are: 1 United 2 Delta - American (tie) American has been coming up with decent domestic one-way fare numbers, so they're up from 3. I was on MIA-LAX on their big 777-300. It was a good flight and full. The cabin crew was all middle-aged guys. I've never seen that before, especially on a big plane. They gave out those delicious Biscoff cookies. One of the attendants was a super sassy Black guy. I later asked him for some more of those cookies. He told me they didn't have anymore. Later, I went to the back galley and another Miami-based flight attendant - he seemed like a Cuban guy - looked in a few bins and gave me a couple of those cookies. The Black guy was showy and hilarious, but obviously not the best he should be for that job. Whenever I have asked for an extra snack pack or two on ANY airline, they always give them to me!

Today, March 6th, would have been Michelangelo's birthday. At a time when most men in Renaissance Italy lived about 45 to 55 years, he lived to be 89 years old.