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To escape the coming heat, escape Austin 3

By Michael Barnes | Friday, April 3, 2009, 09:59 PM

For Parts 1 & 2, see posts below …

Some locals will head to other highlands during the summer. Music backer Nancy Coplin and marketer/arts patron Wendi Kushner are going — separately — to Colorado. Musician Meagan Tubb returns to her parents’ house in Crested Butte, Col. where she fishes for rainbow trout. AustinWoman Magazine’s Mary Anne Connolly will test the dry nights in Marfa and Marathon before heading to an annual Labor Day getaway with friends in Jackson Hole, Wy.

Event producer Celeste and husband Adrian Quesada (he of Grupo Fantasma, etc.) are taking their three-year-old to the uplands of Maui, Haw. for massage, yoga and other relaxation. “The ‘upcountry’ is apparently very different from the rest of Maui,” Celeste Quesada says, “more like a Hawaiian, cowboy, Vermont type of place.”

Others prefer the shore. Financial advisor Lynn Slayton Yeldell is headed to Provincetown, Mass. — part of the annual migration from Texas to a region that includes Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and the coast of Maine.

Ashley Leitsch from J. Black’s Lounge is joining nine friends for a “girls trip” to always temperate San Diego. They travel together annually, always to a beach location.

Spazio owner Lytle Pressley prefers quiet, cool Pepe’s Hideaway near Manzanillo, on the Pacific side of Mexico. It consists of six thatched roof casitas on stilts embedded in the side of a cliff.

“The owner is a wonderful American who’s lived in many places,” Pressley says. “I’ve been five times. It’s a true vacation, meaning no noise, no pressure to do things unless you want to, and so beautiful.”

Downtown Austin Alliance’s Lacy A. LaBorde will attend a friend’s wedding in Woolacombe, a seaside resort on the coast of North Devon, U.K. It might even turn sweater-chilly there on the Irish Sea.