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So more of that on the horizon, and I am freelancing full time now, um, so I've got more time to write.

Uh, I've got some pieces out in Arizona Highways and High Country News.

Oh, yeah.

That's what I understood.

I'm Doug Nintzel and, uh, in today's episode, we're gonna, you know, talk about the fall travel season.

And, uh, really I think there's nobody better to talk about this type of thing, uh, than Robert Stieve, who's the editor of Arizona Highways magazine.

Uh, first of all, Robert, thanks for taking time to be here.

Always glad to be here.

[laughs]

So, hey, we are...

Uh, as I mentioned, we're into the fall travel season, so when it comes to Arizona Highways magazine, um, you know, o- what, what do you think about w- a- and I'm sure you and the staff are planning months in advance, but what goes into thinking about, um, autumn or fall in Arizona?

You know, that's a great question.

Welcome to the September 2026 edition of the Arizona Highways Podcast.

We are supported by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

Design shapes more than buildings, it shapes lives.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation believes that great design connects people, nature, and community.

Learn more at franklloydwright.org. With Arizona Highways editor Robert Steve, I'm Steve Goldstein.

Coming up, author Annette McGivney explores James Arthur Ray, the sweat lodge deaths of 2009, and what led to that tragic incident.

But first, we start with Robert's editor's letter from the September issue of Arizona Highways magazine.

All right, you start the column by talking about your admiration for Mark Twain.

Annette McGivney is an award-winning author of five nonfiction books, including Pure Land, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award.

She taught journalism at Northern Arizona University and is a longtime reporter for Outside, Backpacker, The Guardian, Runner's World, and Arizona Highways.

She lives in Cortez, Colorado.

Annette McGivney, uh, thank you for joining us here on Access Utah.

In the very, you know, broad and, and, uh, abundant media coverage, this just did not surface.

And so I was very, um, fortunate to learn about that in my research.

I was writing a story for Arizona Highways, just, uh, unrelated, uh, about the Yavapai-Apache people, who are the indigenous people of central Arizona.

The Ya- there's the Yavapai Nation and the Apache Nation, and they were combined by the United States in the 1800s into one reservation, but they are the indigenous people of the Sedona area.